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Afternoon ScrumMaster

On April 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Experience, Stories

 

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 [...]

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White Elephant

On February 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

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!

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Virtual Parkbench

On November 15, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Experience, Facilitation Exercises

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 [...]

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Walk the dog

On June 10, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Experience, Facilitation Exercises, Tools & Artifacts

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 [...]

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Scrum Collage

On January 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

One lazy sunday afternoon, I created this scrum collage as my desktop image

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