Scrum ruins great engineers… or not
Few days ago I came across this article on Stack overflow. It took me a few days to think about it and I want to share some thoughts on what the article called the scrum pitfalls. Scrum pitfalls or no Scrum pitfalls? The article mentioned ten nine scrum pitfalls that...
Covid-19: How to maintain trust in your team?
With Covid-19 the world went suddenly upside down. Most businesses had either to close or send their employees to work from home. In a brief fraction of time, working from home exploded and massive contingency plans had to be established in an emergency to allow the...
Using the high-performing tree in retrospectives
In this post, I will explain how I used the metaphor of the "High-performance tree" created by Lyssa Adkins to convey the concept to a team and build on it during retrospectives. The metaphor is widely known nowadays among the agile coaches world and it is described...