Aug 15, 2021Agile Coaching Lab — week 5 reflectionAs a wise man said, “The beginning is the most important part of the work”. I believe the real secret to success is enthusiasm. On the other hand, Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy — it won’t come out while you’re watching. …1 min read1 min read
Aug 9, 2021Reflection on week 4; ACLab — the perfect mix of every good thing.It was nice having a break from class this week to focus on my business idea. It was also a busy week because we found our new house and had to sign the agreement :D So excited! Well, back to the ACLab, I would have to say that I have…2 min read2 min read
Jul 25, 2021I didn’t want to write this week very much. It was like homework.This is my Week 3 Reflection for the Agile Coaching Lab. This week was a minimal amount of writing exercises and a lot of practical exercises that I like. The number of things I have learned in this class is immense. In sum, this week transitioned my agile coaching skills into an appropriate quality coach (not specifically an agile coach). By completing coaching Dojo and Practice coaching (Choose your adventure game), I developed essential skills to manifest into my coaching experience. Learning and practising Clean Language and Clean Feedback proved to be one of the essential skills that developed tremendously over this week.1 min read1 min read
Jan 16, 2021Support Angel for handling external disruptors during the sprintIn the real world, there will always be bugs, defects, and unexpected issues with usability as you release a new increment after each sprint. In my post on 3 and 17 Oct 2020, I talked about Is handling urgent change requests being a problem for you? and Modifying sprint backlog…Scrum3 min readScrum3 min read
Dec 5, 2020How to handle unresolved conflict in a scrum team?A Scrum Team is a group of people working together to deliver the product increments needed. One of the main characteristics of the scrum team is self-managing (self-organizing changed to self-managing in the 2020 Scrum Guide), which means that they decide themselves who is doing what, when and how. Conflicts…Scrum4 min readScrum4 min read
Nov 27, 2020Daily Stand-up Anti-PatternsAlthough the principles and techniques of Scrum are fairly easy to understand, it is very difficult to learn their everyday implementation. Daily scrum meeting is one of the ceremonies among many teams. Usually, it won’t take longer than 15 minutes for a successful Scrum team to inspect its progress towards…Daily Stand Up3 min readDaily Stand Up3 min read
Oct 16, 2020Modifying sprint backlog during the planned sprintScrum is a good thing, no doubt, and the Scrum mindset isn’t unreasonable. As we live in the age of agile business environments — always changing, and always adapting — adapting to change is Inevitable. Scrum is a great framework that believes in responding rapidly to changes in the business…Scrum3 min readScrum3 min read
Sep 19, 2020Capacity Planning - When? How? Tools?Last week I was asked a question “Do you use capacity planning? When? How? Tools” So, I decided to share my experience and opinion with you this week. Scrum teams often come up against this obstacle of sprint commitments during sprint planning. One of the most known challenges about sprint…Capacity Planning3 min readCapacity Planning3 min read
Aug 21, 2020Get the most out of your Daily Stand-upAccording to the Scrum framework, only the development team participates in the Daily Scrum. Neither the Scrum Master nor the product owner takes part, but they are welcome to attend and listen, and in fact, the Scrum framework is explicit that the Scrum Master doesn’t even have to attend. …Scrum3 min readScrum3 min read
Aug 14, 2020Who should act as a wise fool in Scrum Team and when?Recently I had a chance to re-read a book by Jeff Sutherland called Scrum: the art of doing twice the work in half the time. It had a section which made me think and I decided to share my opinion with you. …Scrum3 min readScrum3 min read
