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Kanban Misconceptions - Roles and Accountabilities

The roles Kanban introduces are Service Delivery Manager and Service Request Manager. They are like the ying to each other's yang:

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4 min

Kanban Misconceptions - Cadence

Well Kanban has cadences and they are mandatory just like days of the week. Kanban is very attentive to its meetings and they are called cad

3 things every Agile Coach should stand for

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7 min

3 things every Agile Coach should stand for

There are 3 things I consider paramount in the stance of an Agile Coach. To some they seem controversial, to others, a rather obvious choice

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6 min

How to start adopting a coaching stance

In this post I would like to share with you how I managed to overcome two obstacles in tuning into my coaching: one is related to curiosity

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7 min

How to start out as a Scrum Master

First you need to understand Scrum. Then you need to understand you role as Scrum Master. Here are a few tips on

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11 min

A deeper look on Scrum 5 values

5 values of Scrum: Courage, Focus, Respect,Commitment and Openness still hold solid and invaluable, they are what help you to stay true to

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3 min

Crash course on open(ing) questions

Asking more questions is a great way to make a coachee think deeper, but in the realm of coaching not all questions are created equal.

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4 min

A Mentoring Wheel

I designed this mentoring wheel as a guide for all mentoring relationships I establish now. It did not start in a big bang, I slowly constru

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9 min

A Scrum Master mentoring experiment

Introducing a model I have been using to up-skill Scrum Masters with 100% of success, based on mentoring. It elevates the role and is align

Distributed 2020 and my thoughts on online collaboration

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Distributed 2020 and my thoughts on online collaboration

I was really excited to attend to Distributed 2020, an online conference about remote and distributed work life.

COVID19 chronicles: knowledge workers in and Agile

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4 min

COVID19 chronicles: knowledge workers in and Agile

As I list those, I have been working for months in this COVID-transformed environment, since March 2020.

Toying with the 8 Stances of a Scrum Master

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4 min

Toying with the 8 Stances of a Scrum Master

a highly interactive mentoring program covering each of the 8 stances through activities that allow the scrum masters to dig deeper

Systems Thinking 101: The What and the Why

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10 min

Systems Thinking 101: The What and the Why

Systemic thinking will bring us about boundaries of autonomy of a team, another excellent opportunity for growth. When teams are capable of

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6 min

The 5 stages of a retrospective

I view a retrospective as a shared event of a team looking back or forward and investigating the deepest causes of success, failure and ever

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5 min

Retrospectives are not Postmortems

A postmortem, however, is not a retrospective. Here are some ways in which they greatly differ.

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