Articles

2025

Does Your Kanban Board Include Sprint Backlog Tasks? You Might Be Doing It Wrong

Thank you, Scrum

PMI Masticates Agile Alliance

2024

Historical Perspective of the Role of the Scrum Master

Pssst…You’re Allowed to Stop Using Jargon

2023

What To Do In the First 90 Days as a Scrum Master

Why I’m NOT a SAFe Trainer

Common Complaint: “Scrum Doesn’t Work Here!”

From the Trenches: Small Batches for the Win

How To Prevent Another Phoenix Pay System Inferno

Design Agencies Are Fun, Development Teams Are Stressful

2022

What Is Kanban?

What Is Scrum?

Someone Made Up ‘SDLC’ And Everyone Went Along With It

2021

I am a Professional Kanban Trainer with ProKanban.org

A Story of Release Gates: An Antipattern

Continuous Deployment Is Now Table Stakes

2019

“Can we use Scrum with ‘remote’ staff?”

Defining Distributed, Remote, Co-located, and Dislocated Teams

Velocity: Escape this Pitfall!

2018

I am a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org

The Art of Agile Product Documentation

Looking for Work as a Scrum Master? Choose Wisely.

Canada’s Phoenix Payroll Catastrophe

2017

A Scrum Team Increases Their Velocity by Doing Less Work

A Week in the Life of a Scrum Team

2016

A Book Review: “The Great ScrumMaster”, by Zuzana Šochová

Etymology of ‘Management’

2015

A Lean Startup is Going to Eat Your Lunch