Four steps to improve your customer empathy interviewsAs a PO I do my best to talk with customers at least once a day. On these calls I am seeking to understand our customers’ problems, how…Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021
Participatory budgeting: Embracing conflict, say no to partial fundingWhat is Participatory Budgeting?Dec 16, 2020Dec 16, 2020
Planning Agile Part III: Planning for Product PeopleAs Product Owners we have the opportunity to align our teams on a destination, and to achieve better plans with our Big Room Planning…Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020
Value Streams Mapping for HumansHow do we, as leaders, adapt the value stream process to put individuals and interactions over processes and tools?Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020
Agile is for you. Yes you.I get asked all the time how I got into agile without a background as a developer. Many of the people who ask me that question are seeing…Nov 4, 2019Nov 4, 2019
Confessions of an Agile PusherI recently started as a Scrum Master at a new company. My last company had strong agile practices and ran the basics, textbook, without…Jun 20, 20191Jun 20, 20191
Planning Agile Part II: Big Room PlanningLast month I wrote about Agile Central’s Planning Calendar and the lead up to our Big Room Planning event. Now, I will dive deeper into the…Jan 25, 2018Jan 25, 2018
Big Room Planning Part I: Planning CalendarAs a Scrum Master I get a lot of questions from our customers and other Agilists about how we plan at Agile Central. What is our planning…Dec 14, 2017Dec 14, 2017
Kaizen: Experiments in Scaling Agile(This post was written in collaboration with William Kammersell and simultaneously published on the Agile Central blog. You can also listen…Dec 6, 20171Dec 6, 20171