Do we always need a scrum master ?

Does the Scrum Master Role Ever Go Away? "Having a special person who only does SM duties is like having a person who only does database work, or a person that only works on the UI. It just doesn’t fit into a cross-functional team experience. Worse yet, it starts creating a wall between the developers and the rest of the organization."

The future software engineer skills - Raise the bar

The future software engineers need to develop appropriate set of skills so that in 5 or 10 years’ time they can embrace what’s yet to come readily and confidently enough.

How To Properly Measure Employee Engagement?

Measuring Engagement Is Tough Because It’s Hard To Define.  Every employer has heard the words "employee engagement," but do most executives truly understand what it means? More importantly, do they know how to measure it?

How to measure soft skills?

Decision fatigue -Why do we make bad decisions?

Coined by Roy F. Baumeister, social psychologist : Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, decision fatigue occurs after a long session of decision-making which results in low self-control and willpower.

Velocity - The good and the bad of it

"Velocity is an indication of the average amount of Product Backlog turned into an Increment of product during a Sprint by a Scrum Team, tracked by the Development Team for use within the Scrum Team. There is no such thing as a Good Velocity or a Bad Velocity. Remember, it is based on relative estimations. Let’s understand with some examples on how a powerful Velocity metric can turn from Good, to Bad, to Ugly."

"Open doors" with 'Powerful Questions'

“Questions open the door to dialogue and discovery. They are an invitation to creativity and breakthrough thinking. Questions can lead to movement and action on key issues; by generating creative insights, they can ignite change”
— Vogt, Brown, & Isaacs, 2003, p. 1

How to overcome learned helplessness that will harm your agile transformation?

Unfortunately, some organizations have a very dysfunctional culture that results in employees who do not believe that they can be effective and, worse, are not motivated to take appropriate action when serious incidents do occur. Instead, they focus on protecting themselves and ensuring plausible deniability.

Why every #scrum team needs to know about #kanban , and what?

The Metrics of Flow that will help you optimize your flow of value

Flow is all about how value propagates through a process. So the best strategy to optimize the delivery of value to your customers is to optimize your flow. Those metrics will help you understand your journeyer and make the right decisions for your organization.

Why Agile Guild is needed for agile teams?

The Transformative Power of Emotional Agility. #agile

In our complex, fast-changing knowledge economy, this ability to manage one’s thoughts and feelings is essential to business success. Numerous studies, from the University of London professor Frank Bond and others, show that emotional agility can help people alleviate stress, reduce errors, become more innovative, and improve job performance.