Category Archives: Agile

Switching to working virtually…

It’s been about a month and half nearly two months now of working completely virtual and staying away from the office due to Covid19. There were some initial bumps, such as, dropped vpn connections or capacity overload home wifi connectivity issues missing having two monitors issues with team collaboration tools missed meeting by team members […]

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Motivating Teams

The most important part of being a team leader is to keep the team motivated, both at an individual and team level. It involves ensuring, Everyone is clear about what we are doing and more focused on the outcome then the effort involved. Identify any individual limiting beliefs and help eliminate them Constant communication/feedback Celebrate […]

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Agile Team leadership

Each Agile team has it’s own unique challenges, and it changes as the team evolves. One of our challenges to functioning as a cohesive coding team, has been the relative differences in coding skill levels between various team members. After observing and talking to the team, it occurs to me, the following measures in upcoming […]

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Agile Retrospective

Agile Retrospectives are important in building high-performance teams. The key part is that entire team needs to go in with an open mind for the purpose of learning and improving. As a scrum master/team lead, my role, was to get everyone engaged and participate. Having moved from years of waterfall to scrum, at our very […]

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Scrum Master

So I’ve been tapped to be Scrum Master/Team Manager for a newly formed scrum team. We are moving from Waterfall to Agile, so it is a big change for most of the developers here. There is both skepticism and trepidation on what the change will be mean. Scrum is an agile way to manage a […]

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