What is an Agile organization exactly? What are some common characteristics of Agile organizations and how can your company develop those characteristics?

Time again, when working with product teams building software applications, the big question always is, “When will it be done?”

Motivational Interviewing is a goal-oriented way of having a collaborative conversation with a person or group, while paying particular attention to the language of change.

One of the values closely embraced when working in an agile environment is transparency. If we aren’t transparent then we may give obscure answers to questions or act with muddied behavior not clearly understood by anyone.

As agile coaches, if we don’t focus on making relationship management an integral part of our teachings, we are doing our team a major disservice.

One of the hardest things for the Scrum Master to do is to get team members to show up and participate in meetings. One way to combat this is to provide incentives to your Scrum team.

Make sure the Scrum team is on-board with the direction they are heading, and make sure they understand how it aligns with the goals of their company.

In a previous blog, we discussed 4 strategic alignment and funding antipatterns. Here, we focus on the remaining 8 operational antipatterns.

Here are twelve common antipatterns associated with lean/agile portfolio management that can help make our agile technology companies better suited to perform in the age of digital disruption.

Follow these simple rules for timeboxing and your meetings/activities will prove to be valuable to everyone and help promote agility.

Working with very large remote teams is a challenge in many ways. Here is an exercise to try with your remote or co-located teams to allow them to collaborate during the iterations.

Scrum Masters need to be willing to engage with an open mind while remaining focused on what they want to accomplish. Here are five tips that you can use to better position yourself to succeed as a new Scrum Master.

Companies embark on their Agile transformations every day, but how do they do it and what are the common agile transformation steps?

As Scrum Masters, we need to help our organizations identify and work through "bottlenecks". We first identify what these blockers are, then prioritize each item and tackle the highest impact items first.

The Agile product backlog evolves over time. The process of refining the backlog is a core part of Scrum.

The role of a Scrum Master can be difficult. How do you take your Scrum Master skills to the next level? How do you become a great Scrum Master?

You need accuracy and consistency when talking point estimation. When you are not consistent, you run into issues with measuring velocity over a period of time.

The sprint review is a big moment for any development team. What is a checklist or to-do list you can use to plan a successful sprint review?

An enterprise Agile transformation is difficult. It will require a complete shift in mindset at all levels of the organization.

We often think of duplicate work as a bad thing. Is this the case in an Agile setting? Agile is a very different way of working and developing.