What Time’s Your Stand-Up?

The stand-up meeting has had quite a lot of attention on my team over the last week. At our last retrospective, it was brought up as a problem that we nearly always had at least one person missing when we started the meeting. Obviously this hampers us reaching the goal of having a rich and …

The Path to Greatness – Anyone Got a Map?

I just bumbled into a great post by Raganwald on the subject of certification for professional software developers. It’s something I’ve been giving some thought to lately. I coach my team informally on a daily basis as we work together and more formally at the end of each iteration during our retrospective. I’ve also been …

The Power of a Good Story

When I sat Mike Cohn‘s scrum-master course last year, one of the concepts I learned was the idea of templating all your user stories like this: As a [type of user], I want to [do something useful with the system], so that [reason / motivation for wanting to do it]. I’ve come to realise that …