Have you heard about “doing agile” vs “being agile”? Taking a two-day course with an exam to become a CSM can help you and your team to do agile, but being truly agile takes a lot more: Practicing, experimenting, and learning by doing. …

Many organizations are hiring agile coaches for their agile transformation, to find out that their agility doesn’t increase while spending a lot of money. They expected that the coaches would make them agile, but their actual performance and results are not improving. It’s even becoming worse! If you want to…

An agile retrospective is a practice for teams to reflect, learn, and to continuously become better in what they do. …

I don’t have any agile certificates. As an independent coach, trainer, and consultant, I apply whatever makes sense and looks like a valuable solution in a given context. In this article, I’ll question the need to be certified in agile, discuss the alternatives, and explain how I deliver quality and…

In 2018 I started a series of posts on Retrospective Smells. I plunged in by exploring two smells: Passiveness and Blaming. For each smell, I described how to recognize it and how to deal with it. In this post, I’ll explore why facilitators need to know about retrospective smells. What’s a retrospective smell A…

Making a business case for agile starts by understanding what agile is about and considering how agile can help you. You have to define your own metrics and track them to see if agile is bringing you business value, and reflect on your agile journey to learn, and adopt. Your mileage may vary Over…