Collaboration is important in an Agile setting. Teams that figure out how best to collaborate on User Stories will deliver the best products.

When it comes to Agile, it is not about how you start, but about how you finish. You have to execute and you have to finish to be a winning development team.

There are many responsibilities you have as a Scrum Master, but there are just a few things a team would prefer their Scrum Master to focus in on.

There are tons of ice breaker activities proven to be effective for Agile development teams. Here are a few you can try with your team!

One of the most common questions organizations have is, "How long does an Agile transformation take?" Is a full Agile transformation something you can accomplish in a week? A month? A year?

Value stream mapping is a powerful exercise used to get great results from development teams. However, certain impediments can significantly detract from the value output, slowing the progress of development efforts.

What exactly is the MVP and what is the best path to reach this state?  It is vital to define your MVP as early in the process as possible, but constantly refining it will be pivotal.  Let us dig a bit deeper into exactly what the MVP is all about, how to attain it, and also how to sell it once complete.

How much attention do you give to your team’s velocity?  If the answer is very little or none, it is time to change that.  Velocity is an important metric to track in the Agile and Scrum space.

How do you know how well you are doing against team expectations?  Two mechanisms within Agile that can help are the burndown and burnup charts.

Unless you have been living on a remote island unconnected from civilization for the past few decades, you have no doubt heard the term “servant leadership.” It has a very interesting past and may go back farther than you think.

One of the core principles of Agile is the idea of co-location.  This means the development team is all located in the same office, each day they work.  That reality is not in sync with the way most of us work.

We examine this Sprint to detail how it fits into the Agile puzzle to improve the effectiveness of implementation and execution.

We cover three great facilitated voting techniques. These techniques are dot voting, fist of five, and thumb voting.

The three official three Scrum Artifacts, as outlined in the Scrum Guide, are: Sprint Backlog, Product Backlog, and Product Increment.

How do we handle removing the automatic pluralization of table names in Entity Framework Core 2? It’s easier than you think!

User Story Estimation should not on the how to do a task, but instead, the what the task is.

We dive into some of the most common mistakes a Scrum Master makes and discuss ways to prevent them.

When you assume the role of Scrum Master, you can expect a career that continues to evolve for the better.

Sprint Grooming is an essential part of the Scrum process.  Understanding what Sprint Grooming is all about and how to run sessions routinely and effectively is critical.

When introducing Scrum to your team, you want to bring it to them methodically, specifically, in a way where the team can consume it, learn it, and then begin to make it their own.