Context explains a lot of our behavior.
This is a most intriguing case, that I feel I can now retell. For much time has passed by and my metaphorical obfuscation will protect the innocent.
In the warm summer months of August, I was engaged to a client most ambitious in pursuit of [...]
Once upon a time in a land of many black elephants. Shankar believed that there are white elephants too. Shankar travelled far and he travelled long. He met a pink elephant, a flying elephant, a yellow elephant. Until he came across a white elephant and then he exclaimed: I was right!
For large distributed retrospectives, where participants in the retrospective are in different cities, I have created a variation of popular group discussion technique called as “Park Bench”.
Some Background: I was coaching within a large organization with different scrum teams distributed in three separate cities, Bellevue, WA; Chicago, IL and Waterloo, Canada. This organization had [...]
This is a simple technique with a marketing twist to its name. This title came to me while coaching a team that was struggling to behave cross functionally and were paralyzed at delivering working software at the end of their sprint. It is a simple mental discipline that I have often used in crafting good [...]
One lazy sunday afternoon, I created this scrum collage as my desktop image
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