Visualizing Technical Debt

Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki and one of the creators of eXtreme Programming, first described technical debt in 1992 this way: Shipping first… Read More

How do you define value?

We launched a new Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) cohort last week. Week 1 of our program focuses on modeling and communicating about… Read More

Collaborate vs. Coordinate

“Our team needs to collaborate more.” “We need to have tight coordination on this effort.” How are these two different? While collaboration and coordination are… Read More

When You Can’t Do It By The Book

Last week, we were facilitating a large Agile for Teams workshop to launch several teams in a marketing organization. Some participants were skeptical, especially early… Read More

Habits and Strategies

As one teacher of philosophy summarized Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” The best Agile teams… Read More