Articles on Teams

Bring work to teams, not people to projects. Measure value, not busyness

Grouping individuals together doesn’t make them a team.

Onboarding over task work to help new people become team members

Daily Scrum is about improving communication, not status reporting

_Scrum team **Working Agreements** are a simple, powerful way of creating explicit

Good Scrum teams know that they own the Sprint Backlog. Great teams experiment.

Spotify never really used the famous model. Or don't create tribes

Team familiarity reduces defects by 19% and improves predictability by 40%.

Your a ScrumMaster? Isn't that Team Lead with a bad haircut?

If your Scrum Team has been together for years and you’ve been following the Agile

People go into the office but still don't see their team, joining the same virtual meetings they would from home

Majority votes is often the worst way to make a decision, in a team

Mark and his wife, Doris, along with a small group of their friends, have become very good

How big should my Scrum Team be? The science explained

Building a real Product? Support issues are inevitable. What are some effective ways of handling them

It is common in the early stages of Scrum implementation for there to be misunderstandings

Mid-Sprint, the Product Owner has discovered unplanned work - what is the harm?

Traditional titles can be toxic at the team member level because they imply a limitation

Self-organizing teams require managers to support and develop, not direct and control

The team doesn't understand that Daily Scrum is for them, not a management reporting tool.

Learning happens best when people feel motivated, not coerced into skill development.

More specialist, just means more bottlenecks

Forcing change conflicts with the essential human need for autonomy

Is my specific role: QA/BA/UX/.. considered a Developer in Scrum

We've had requests for a single page that lists all the ongoing [Beyond Scrum blog

Seeing an organizational change map with seven to eight proposed major changes can feel

Both Vision and Strategy should be created with input from the whole organization, not just leadership

Define vision for change with a mix senior management, middle management, and doers

If nothing changes, the control focus of the organization will destroy the Agile Improvement

Grow a culture where frequent small changes are the norm as the pace of change increases

Your organization has decided to become more “Agile.” Why? As we learned in a previous

In 201x, the global financial markets collapsed. Reason: mortgages were given to people

Companies are starting to fall into a trap, and it goes something like this, “Our

An example of an Organizational Improvement Teams can using Scrum

Using Scrum for Organizational Improvement, remember to include the people on the gorund

prioritize value delivery over keeping workers constantly busy

So begins the opening of the **High-Performance Teams Game**. My goal is to help you see

How many teams can a ScrumMaster coach effectively at one time

In the long run overtime always leads to poor quality and morale

Why Scrum recommends stable team membership

New Team members are disruptive, there can be learning and personal challenges. Good ScrumMasters coach both

If there is a line up, cashiers just start opening lanes until the bottleneck is cleared.

On any project it will take from 2-4 months for the team to integrate a new person