A Metrics-Driven Approach to Agile Planning
Using metrics for long-range planning is a great way to build confidence from your stakeholders that your team will deliver. Metrics and data bring a lot more merit to the...
Using metrics for long-range planning is a great way to build confidence from your stakeholders that your team will deliver. Metrics and data bring a lot more merit to the...
At a lot of large companies, our customers are so far out of reach that we don’t know anything about them. We don’t have any direct access to customers either...
Now that your company’s mastered the Scrum framework at a team level, it may be time to expand it to multiple teams or areas of your organization. While you may...
So many people think that Scrum is an IT-thing, but Scrum is such a flexible framework for managing complex products and projects that it can be applied just about anywhere!We’ve...
What does it mean to be a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) and how will it help your career goals? Can you get hired as a Scrum Master without a certification? Let’s...
If you’ve ever wanted to own a business or think like a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), being a product owner has many similarities. A good product owner has to think...
We often hear people say that they want to be a Scrum Master, but no one will hire them because they don’t have that job title on their resume. However...
I recently had the great pleasure to guest blog on one of my most influential mentor's blog. Mike Cohn asked me to reflect on how I see the Scrum Master...
My wife and I love to travel. Every year, we spend time contemplating where we would like to go next. Sometimes we spend a bit of time day-dreaming of what...
I believe the Chief Operating Officer title should be changed to Chief Outcome Officer. I once worked with a COO (let's call him Ethan). Our organization had well over 5...
Whether you’ve been told you’re now a product owner for a Scrum team, or you’ve just landed your dream job, getting started in this new role can be challenging. Since...
I’ve had a lot of marketers ask me, “Does Scrum really work in marketing?” Yes, it absolutely does! There are many myths of what Scrum is and isn’t, and I...