Entries by Giora Morein

How Content Helps You Launch & Develop Your Scrum Career

Building your personal brand is the long-term strategy for Scrum Masters that will pay big dividends You’ve got your Scrum Master certification, you’ve beefed up your LinkedIn profile, and yet no one is beating down your door to hire you. That’s probably because you don’t stand out from the hundreds of other worthy candidates competing…

Your Guide to Agile Ceremonies and Why They Matter

How events, rituals, and ceremonies add value to meetings Not another meeting! People generally don’t look forward to meetings. It’s one more task in a day filled with demands and deadlines. For Agile teams, meetings are an essential part of daily work life. Adding ritual to these meetings makes them meaningful. It gives them value.…

Should we have all sprint tasks assigned at sprint planning?

Sprint Tasks Tips: Staying Focused when Agile Sprint Planning Assigning tasks at sprint planning makes us task-driven or more focused on our tasks than the goal of the sprint. For some time, it looks like we’re making rapid improvements until some tasks get blocked. Then, we just move on only to later on realize that…

What are the Benefits of Agile and How does Agile save us money?

Benefits of Agile Explained – How to Realize Agile Cost Savings?  Agile benefits are all about delivering the most valuable products or features in the least amount of time by prioritizing the highest valued things and then delivering them through to completion very quickly. With agile, we get to accelerate the returns so we can…

Why should the product owner attend the daily scrum?

Product owners, the team members who’re responsible for investing in the product that we’re delivering, are not mandatory participants of the Daily Scrum. But as people shepherding the investment, they are interested in them because it’s a valuable 15 minutes spent synchronizing with the team: an opportunity to be updated with what’s happening with the…

Team members in distant time zones

What should we do if our team members are in distant time zones? Team members can be difficult to manage when they’re in distant time zones because the time overlap is so small that there’s not enough opportunity to collaborate or participate in events. So, how do you turn things around, empower your team members…

Leading with Kindness: Nice to Have or Necessity?

In an Agile environment, you don’t have to be nice. But you should always be kind. Leaders should be: [Fill in the blank.]  Depending on whether you’re a traditionalist, boomer, Gen X, millennial, or Gen Z, you probably have very different perspectives on what leadership looks like and how leaders should act. In recent years,…

People Over Process: Behind Agile’s Core Principles

People Over Process: Behind Agile’s Core Principles In “People Over Process,” Michael K Levine explains how the focus on “Individuals and Interactions” over “Processes and Tools” is key to Agile. That’s why it was the first value listed in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.  20 years on, we can see why and how this…

How to use Scrum Burndown Charts to Measure Performance

 Is Your Team on Target? How to use Scrum Burndown Charts to Measure Performance Scrum Burndown Charts are designed to provide your team with feedback on how you’re performing, so you can make informed decisions as you move forward.  There are different levels of burndowns including project, release, and sprint burndowns, but they all have…