Using a Dashboard to Improve Team Efficiency
A dashboard is a powerful tool that can help you improve team efficiency by providing you with key data and insights in one easy-to-use platform. This allows you to make data-driven decisions and identify areas for improvement more quickly and effectively.
Mastering the Role of a Scrum Master
As a Scrum Master, it's important to have a strong understanding of the principles and practices of the framework, as well as excellent communication and leadership skills. In this blog post, we'll explore the key principles of transparency and inspect and adapt, and discuss the role of the Scrum Master in facilitating these practices within the team.
Zappos' Journey to Go Agile
When Zappos implemented Scrum, they faced challenges such as employee unfamiliarity with the framework and decentralized teams, but ultimately saw benefits including improved communication and collaboration, increased transparency, and the ability to continuously improve.
Facilitating the Sprint Retrospective
Retrospectives allow the team to reflect, learn, and improve at the end of every sprint. In this post, we outline some of the benefits that should come as a result when retrospectives are executed correctly.
How Scrum Turned Things around at H&R Block
In this post, we take a deep dive into the world’s largest tax preparation company implementing Scrum & Agile with the help of a consulting company, their biggest challenges, and the end result.
The Value of a Good Scrum Master
Scrum Masters play a vital role in helping teams and the organization… or do they? In this post, we'll explore the various ways in which a Scrum Master can bring value to an organization, including improving efficiency, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and increasing transparency & accountability.
How Scrum Helped the FBI
In this post, I take a deep dive into some of the impediments the FBI ran into on their Sentinel project when using a traditional project management approach along with some of the key ways in which Scrum helped them turn things around.
The Responsibilities of a Scrum Master
The Scrum Master is to do “whatever is needed to help the team become high-performing.” With such a vague outline, it is no wonder that confusion abounds around the responsibilities of the role.