Articles

2025

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

Nobody Understands Leading & Lagging Indicators

Agile Practices and Developer Autonomy

2024

Dislocated Team: “My teammates are in 3 different time zones! Help!?”

Should ‘Bugs’ Have ‘Points’?

Do you think it’s necessary to start every sprint with each story fully specified?

What do you think about story points?

Historical Perspective of the Role of the Scrum Master

Team-managed vs. Company-managed projects in Jira.

Pssst…You’re Allowed to Stop Using Jargon

2023

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

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

From the Trenches: Small Batches for the Win

2021

Sometimes ‘Transparency’ Just Means Not Lying

A Story of Release Gates: An Antipattern

No Longer Tolerate ‘Blocked’ or ‘Waiting’ States

2019

Stop Using Projects to Make Products

Phoenix Payroll Catastrophe — Why Canada is Destined to Repeat It

Velocity: Escape this Pitfall!

2017

A Scrum Team Increases Their Velocity by Doing Less Work

2015

A Lean Startup is Going to Eat Your Lunch