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What is Coaching for Performance?
Introduction Coaching for performance is Agile Coaching with a focus on improving the performance of a product development organization. This approach emphasizes finding performance gaps and setting metrics for improving product development. In traditional performance monitoring, metrics are set by management and implemented via a reporting chain. In this setup, there is no ownership across…
Lack of Education is a Root Cause of Poor Agile Performance
This post builds upon the knowledge of Org Topologies™. Last week I was invited to give a lecture at the Free University of Amsterdam at the faculty for Digital Business Innovation. I consider it a real honor to teach the students of a University. The lecture triggered a lot of thoughts about the relevance of…
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Why Scrum Masters should consider PSM-II training.
When you aspire to a Scrum Master role, some form of certification on your resume is a must. Scrum.org offers the acclaimed PSM learning journey to support Scrum Masters to professionalise their skills. I am a Professional Scrum Trainer for scrum.org and I have trained hundreds of Scrum Masters over the past few years. Newcomers…
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How to Measure Agile Maturity
When I coach, consult and teach classes, I often get questions about creating an agile maturity tool or defining agile maturity metrics. Agile Maturity metrics are used by many businesses to better understand their present agile practices and monitor to improve them. I understand the need for this kind of metric. I also noticed that…
Scrum en Côte d’Ivoire : Quel mélange !
Quand on parle de Scrum et d’Agilité, nous sommes habitués à penser à l’Amérique et à l’Europe, et non à l’Afrique. Je dois avouer que je suis totalement ignorant du niveau de Scrum et de l’Agile en Afrique. Inutile de dire que j’étais excité d’être invité en Côte d’Ivoire pour une formation PSM-1 et PSPO-1…
Scrum in Ivory Coast: What a mix!
When talking about applying Scrum and Agile, we are hardwired to think about America and Europe, not about Africa. I must confess I am totally ignorant about the status of Scrum and Agile in Africa. Needless to say, I was excited to be invited to Ivory Coast for a PSM-1 and PSPO-1 training in the…