Agile Mindset

In his book, “Confessions of a Public Speaker,” Scott Berkun tells us that when speaking, once the lights go out, you have everyone’s attention. Then you need to fight to avoid [...]

Sometimes you need to pack a suitcase. One way of doing it would be to have a list of how many socks, shirts etc. can the suitcase hold, then prepare these items and pack them into the suitcase. [...]

Sometimes it is right there before us and all we need to do is to reach out and take it. Improvement opportunities are there – all we need to do is learn how to identify them and invest the [...]

  Written by Michal Epstein and Yaki Koren At the beginning of a Scrum implementation you usually find two main types of team behaviors. Those who embrace the scrum events (Planning, daily [...]

Lately I had the opportunity and pleasure to facilitate a process of designing cross-functional feature teams in a self-selection process. Self-selection is a facilitated way to let people choose [...]

As  coach I’ve had several opportunities to be involved in the process of big organizations moving from waterfall to agile. You usually start with frowning faces, people coming to meetings [...]

There is this thing. It’s coming up again and again. I would say it is the root of all evil. At least some of it. I am referring to the need of many software development managers to make [...]

By Erez Tatcher & Yaki Koren Every summer my uncle Josh and his wife Nancy go on a big trip to see a famous waterfall. They love waterfalls. Sometimes it seems to me my uncle even loves [...]

We need good metaphors to better understand software development. Good metaphors from our day to day can help us better understand this elusive domain. Some time ago I wrote about traffic and not [...]

You can find a lot of praise for the Marshmallow Challenge. It is a good warm-up for workshops and training sessions and you can learn a lot from it. Usually the learning people talk about is [...]