Mark and his wife, Doris, along with a small group of their friends, have become very good at solving challenges and escaping locked rooms. In their first escape room in 2015, they were two puzzles away from success but failed to get out. So they changed the team membership. Over the years, they failed another […]
Retrospectives Gone Bad – Toronto Agile Conference 2020
Fresh off the completion of his newest book, The Guide to Effective Agile Retrospectives, Mark Levison presented “Retrospectives Gone Bad” at the Toronto Agile Conference 2020. Do you dread going to work? Are interruptions from outside making progress difficult? Is improvement almost nil? Sprint Retrospectives are the tool to help with all of these issues, […]
The Guide to Effective Retrospectives – Now Available
Responding to one of the most common complaints he hears about Scrum done poorly, Certified Scrum Trainer Mark Levison spent this summer applying two decades worth of Agile study and personal observation to write his newest book, The Guide to Effective Retrospectives. Available for download here, this eBook offers practical advice and specific suggestions to […]
Beyond Scrum Blog Series
We’ve had requests for a single page that lists all the ongoing Beyond Scrum blog posts in one handy spot, and we’re happy to oblige! The below list will be updated as new posts are added. Scrum Alone is Not Enough Simplicity Scrum Development Team – Who’s In It? Choosing the Right Team Size in […]
Agile Leadership: An Oxymoron? – GOAT2016 Presentation
How do Agile Leaders lead without control? What can they really do? Mark answered those questions as a feature presenter at this year’s Gatineau Ottawa Agile Tour (GOAT2016).The one-day conference saw record attendance, with double the last year’s numbers. Attendees had many great speakers and sessions to select from, and those who sat in on Mark’s session […]
Agile Quick Links #34
Some interesting reading for the Agile community: Organizational Design Without Empathy Won’t Work (Sam Spurlin) 0 Bugs Policy (Gal Zellermayer) How a Worker-Owned Tech Startup Found Investors—and Kept Its Values (Nathan Schneider) Embracing Agile (Harvard Business Review) Continuous Deployment at Instagram (Michael Gorven) Where the hell are all the great senior software developers and hands-on engineering […]