by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 19 July 2017 | Articles, Leadership, Workplace communication | Tags: agile, For team leaders & managers, Scrum
A non-profit I work with needed to pack up its office and move to its new office. Most of the people packing would be volunteers, and we needed to make a way for them to easily see what needed to be done, select something to do, and feel useful and helpful quickly. So… I set up a Kanban board!
by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 21 June 2017 | Articles | Tags: agile, For team leaders & managers, Scrum
Reading time: 3 minutes Agile frameworks can help you set priorities and get things done in lots of different situations, not just in software development. I’ve been using Scrum and Kanban to organize my life for five months now. I know of people who teach their...
by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 24 May 2017 | Articles, Communication tips, Workplace communication | Tags: agile, For team leaders & managers, Scrum
Do you want to help your team learn to work together more effectively, and have fun at the same time? Have them play “Friend and Foe.” It’s easy — you just need a space big enough to move around in, and one simple rule…
by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 26 April 2017 | Articles, Communication tips, Workplace communication | Tags: agile, For team leaders & managers, Scrum
If you’re a Scrum Master, and you have one person on your team who’s causing trouble for the rest of the team, should the person be removed from the team? Actually, the first thing you should think about is whether it’s really one team member who’s causing trouble for the rest of the team, or whether something else is going on…
by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 11 January 2017 | Articles, Mediation & dispute resolution | Tags: agile, Scrum
I’m taking my facilitation and mediation skills to the Scrum because: 1) Scrum emphasizes empiricism. 2) Scrum teams self organize. 3) SMs facilitate…