The Agile Daily Standup - AgileDad
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The Agile Daily Standup - AgileDad
Rise and shine, Agile enthusiasts! Kickstart your day with 'The Agile Daily Standup' podcast. In a crisp 15 minutes or less, AgileDad brings you a refreshing burst of Agile insights, blended seamlessly with humor and authenticity. Celebrated around the world for our distinct human-centered and psych...
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If You Want Better Stories, Stop Writing Them All Yourself
If You Want Better Stories, Stop Writing Them All Yourself
I’ve talked to a lot of product owners who are drowning in tickets, trying to “get ah...
Velocity = The Most Abused Agile Metric Ever
Velocity = The Most Abused Agile Metric Ever
Welcome to the dark side of velocity — the number that started as a planning aid and ended up as a...
A Make-A-Wish That Turned Into a Gift for Others
A Make-A-Wish That Turned Into a Gift for Others
When Karina’s Make-A-Wish moment arrived, she didn’t ask for a trip or a celebrity meet-and-gre...
The Heart of New Leadership is Curiosity
The Heart of New Leadership is Curiosity
Most of us are drawn to rules and limits. They give us a sense of safety. Structure and predictability...
Is your team moving in sync—or spinning in circles? - Mike Cohn
Is your team moving in sync—or spinning in circles? - Mike Cohn
Ever feel like your agile team should be working smoothly—but something’s just a...
Today we remember Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry - Happy Veterans Day
Today we remember Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry - Happy Veterans Day
On May 26, 2008, in Paktya Province, Afghanistan, Army Ranger Leroy A. Petry a...
How To Align Your Team Before Year-End - 5 Things You Must Do NOW!
How To Align Your Team Before Year-End - 5 Things You Must Do NOW!
1. Call Out the Elephant in the Room
2. Don’t Let the Momentum Stall
The Hand Written Letter of Gratitude
The Hand Written Letter of Gratitude
In a classroom study, students were asked to write a heartfelt letter of thanks to someone who had helped t...
How Do we GROW? - Getting People on The Same Page!
How Do we GROW? - Getting People on The Same Page!
Do you know the Acronym GROW?
G = Goals
R = Reality
O = Opt...
Are You Protecting Your Team Against the Right Thing? - Mike Cohn
Are You Protecting Your Team Against the Right Thing? - Mike Cohn
A lot has been written and said about the responsibility of a Scrum Master to...
No, Product Management Isn’t Useless — You’re Just Doing It Wrong
No, Product Management Isn’t Useless — You’re Just Doing It Wrong
If you think PMs just write tickets and slow things down, you haven’t seen pro...
The Scrum Master Role Is Disappearing - Or Is It?
The Scrum Master Role Is Disappearing - Or Is It?
The layoffs of 2023 told a story that few in the tech industry wanted to acknowledge. Among t...
Trick-or-treaters Leave Their Halloween Candy For Child Battling Leukemia
Trick-or-treaters Leave Their Halloween Candy For Child Battling Leukemia
A search for hope at the end of this very anxious week led me to this...
Witch’s Brew of Metrics — Don’t Let Vanity Hex Your Team
Witch’s Brew of Metrics — Don’t Let Vanity Hex Your Team
Metric definition template
Name:
What it measures:
Owner:
Frequ...
Poltergeist Meetings — When Meetings Throw Things
Poltergeist Meetings — When Meetings Throw Things At You...
5 micro-rituals (practical)
Purpose line on invite — one sentence: “Decision...
The Phantom Sprint — Invisible Work That Steals Velocity
The Phantom Sprint — Invisible Work That Steals Velocity
Your sprint looks healthy — until a phantom dependency eats your finish line. Here’s ho...
The Haunted Backlog — When Old Stories Won’t Die
The Haunted Backlog — When Old Stories Won’t Die
Triage: Mark backlog items > 90 days old as “graveyard candidates.”
Reframe: Turn vague e...
A Chad Gymnast Scores Top Marks For Determination
A Chad Gymnast Scores Top Marks For Determination
The wall behind her is pockmarked and worn. She’s barefoot against a hard, cracked floor. And...
Stop Worshipping Product Roadmaps
Stop Worshipping Product Roadmaps
A few years ago, I sat through a two-hour planning session where we debated every line of a shiny new roadmap....
The Only Three Things You Must Do To Improve Agility - Mike Cohn
The Only Three Things You Must Do To Improve Agility - Mike Cohn
Distilled to its essence, it’s quite simple to be a Scrum Master, agile coach,...
Agile Estimation: Relative vs. Absolute
Agile Estimation: Relative vs. Absolute
Estimation in Agile isn’t about predicting the future — it’s about creating a shared understanding of wo...
Scrum Theatre and the Agile Illusion
Scrum Theatre and the Agile Illusion
Imagine your team having a perfect stand-up. Everyone’s smiling, and it seems like everything is going smoo...
The Janitor at NASA
The Janitor at NASA
In the early 1960s, during the height of the space race, President John F. Kennedy toured NASA headquarters. The country was...
ScrumMasters and Office Politics
ScrumMasters and Office Politics
The art of pushing through a battlefield with only your laptop in hand — office politics. You can see on this b...
Team Dynamics - The Soloist - Mike Cohn
Team Dynamics - The Soloist - Mike Cohn
It’s always great when a high performer joins a team. A true star can elevate everyone through their att...
When Agile Meets Resistance
When Agile Meets Resistance
You’ve probably heard Agile being described as a novel way of navigating productivity at work, that it could boost c...
Scrum Has Become a Nice Term to Hide Bad Management
Scrum Has Become a Nice Term to Hide Bad Management
Once a wise man said: Fire all Scrum Masters and your non-technical managers who run your IT...
One Last Lap - How a Coach Changed Lives
One Last Lap - How a Coach Changed Lives
Listen in and learn how one attentive coach ran one last lap to help change the lives of countless stud...
ScrumBan... Is it real? Or just Camouflage?
ScrumBan... Is it real? Or just Camouflage?
Let’s get this straight.
Every time someone tells me they’re doing Scrumban, I raise an eyebro...
How to Engage Busy Stakeholders - Mike Cohn
How to Engage Busy Stakeholders - Mike Cohn
We often find ourselves reliant on others outside the team.
For example, an agile team may get...
Clarity Is the Secret Weapon of Agile!
Clarity Is the Secret Weapon of Agile!
We often mistake transparency for clarity. Transparency just means the information is available. Clarity...
Burnout Is NOT a Agile Problem - It Is A Planning Problem
Burnout Is NOT a Agile Problem - It Is A Planning Problem
I remember a sprint planning meeting a few months ago, and I knew the sprint was doome...
5 “Healthy” Habits That Are Quietly Aging You
5 “Healthy” Habits That Are Quietly Aging You
How to connect with AgileDad:
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Is Scrum Dying? Or Are We Just Doing It Wrong?
Is Scrum Dying? Or Are We Just Doing It Wrong?
Scrum used to be king. Now people don’t even want it on their CV.
Remember when being a Pro...
Is it ever OK to deviate from the Scrum Guide? - Mike Cohn
Is it ever OK to deviate from the Scrum Guide? - Mike Cohn
I’m out there on social media and I see all the same posts you do about the sanctity...
The 5 Stages of Leadership
The 5 Stages of Leadership
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Scrum Masters, You’re Not Just the Meeting Person
Scrum Masters, You’re Not Just the Meeting Person
You set up the standup, run a clean retro, update the board — and yet, nothing really changes....
$1 from 130,000 Strangers: Bella’s Viral Mission to Reclaim Her Great-Aunt’s Home
$1 from 130,000 Strangers: Bella’s Viral Mission to Reclaim Her Great-Aunt’s Home
Fourteen-year-old Bella had a dream: to bring back into her fa...
Agile Coaches Can’t Fix What Leadership Keeps Breaking
Agile Coaches Can’t Fix What Leadership Keeps Breaking
You can run the cleanest standups, the best retros, and the most motivated team workshops...
Setting and Managing Expectations - Mike Cohn
Setting and Managing Expectations - Mike Cohn
My first Scrum project was incredibly successful, yet it was almost a failure.
All of the te...