Working to repair the world, one sketchnote at a time
The more sprints that a Team has had together, the more we learn about each other and the power of “Team” and the more everyone buys into the strength of the agile approach. Some time ago I worked with a startup Team. After the fourth Sprint Review/Retrospective & Sprint Planning period they were more relaxed […]
If you have never heard of it, go to http://www.tastycupcakes.com and look around. In their own words, “TastyCupcakes is a community-run site, founded by Michael McCullough and Don McGreal after they presented a series of games at Agile 2008 in Toronto. They first placed their games on this site and then, with the help of Michael Sahota, opened it up to the […]
My first professional management role was three years out of college. I was a young engineer in an privately owned electronics manufacturing company. The owner needed a change, fired the long-time president and brought in a “fixer.” One of the fixer’s first acts was to make me an offer I couldn’t refuse — “I want […]
As someone who has many years of experience as both a project manager and a scrum master I can say with authority that letting go of control of a team is one of the hardest things I’ve had to do in my career. Another equally difficult thing to to allow a team to fail. Failure […]
“Wow! My calendar is packed with meetings, with many of them overlapping. I don’t have time to do anything else.” Does this sound familiar? It’s a part of the historical Capital One culture that reduces our personal job satisfaction, cuts down on productivity, and extends timelines, and makes pulling folks together for a meeting a […]