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Is your Scrum Master worth it?

Looking through the latest results of our salary survey, I am struck with a hint of regret. I know that since we started publishing this data last year, recruiters, HR, managers and Scrum Masters...

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Measuring Happiness

There are lots of posts around metrics in agile. In this post I want to talk about a different kind of metric: Team happiness. The post was inspired by a great talk at SPIN last night by Sharna Sammy....

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Prioritisation using Cost of Delay

Often we encounter companies that have far more demand than their software teams can service. Once we’ve made this visible, the next step is figuring out how to prioritise so that they can spend their...

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Agile Performance Appraisals

For some reason in the last two weeks, we’ve been asked by several people about agile performance appraisals. I guess it’s that time of the year 😉 I’ll be talking about this at the South African Scrum...

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Lean Breakfast

I’ve been thinking about metrics recently. Most people who use Scrum understand velocity. It’s pretty simple. How many points do you complete each sprint on average? As teams move towards more...

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Agile Performance Reviews

I gave a talk on Agile Performance Reviews at the South African Scrum Gathering. You can find my slides here: Agile Performance Appraisals: SGZA13 Talk from Growing Agile I also blogged about my idea...

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Why measuring productivity is bad for business

I recently attended Dan North’s Accelerate Agile course. One of the things he talked about was why measuring productivity is such a terrible idea in software. Although I’ve always known this in my gut,...

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The only software metric you need…

This is a continuation from my previous post on ‘Why measuring productivity is bad for business‘ inspired by Dan North’s Accelerated Agile course. Note: This post has been updated based on feedback in...

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Monthly Retrospective Plan

We hold a retrospective each month, to see how we are doing. We started with the standard retrospective template, but over time we’ve added some of our own components. Here’s an idea of what it looks...

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Interuptions, Support, Business as usual – how do these work in scrum

Most teams starting out with Scrum understand their backlog and what we called planned work. This is work that everyone grooms together and fully understands. Then there is all the other stuff! We tell...

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Invoicing without timesheets

We recently worked with a client who do outsourced software development. They were looking to start using Scrum with a bit more discipline than they had in the past with their own home grown...

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Assessment – How agile is your testing?

  We often see agile teams that have adopted the ceremonies and language of Scrum, but in reality they do waterfall in 2 week increments. One of the easiest ways to notice this is to take a look at how...

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The Four Day Work Week

About a year ago, we made a fairly major decision at Growing Agile. We realised we were too busy, so we decided to work less. We committed to only working 4 days a week. The idea was we would take...

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Interuptions, Support, Business as usual – how do these work in scrum

Most teams starting out with Scrum understand their backlog and what we called planned work. This is work that everyone grooms together and fully understands. Then there is all the other stuff! We...

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Invoicing without timesheets

We recently worked with a client who do outsourced software development. They were looking to start using Scrum with a bit more discipline than they had in the past with their own home grown...

View Article


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Clik here to view.

Assessment – How agile is your testing?

We often see agile teams that have adopted the ceremonies and language of Scrum, but in reality they do waterfall in 2 week increments. One of the easiest ways to notice this is to take a look at how...

View Article

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Clik here to view.

The Four Day Work Week

About a year ago, we made a fairly major decision at Growing Agile. We realised we were too busy, so we decided to work less. We committed to only working 4 days a week. The idea was we would take...

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