Leadership | The Agile Way

25Apr 2019 by theagileway No Comments

Sprint Retrospective Using The World Cafe Method

Facilitation, Leadership, Retrospectives

The Sprint Retrospective provides one of the best opportunities for Scrum teams to discover improvements. Retrospectives aren't the only opportunities. And Scrum Teams aren't the only organisation members that need to discover opportunities for improvement. This post will describe a facilitation tool that I've used to help teams and other stakeholders discover such opportunities. For each, I will also describe a situation in which I used it effectively. The name of the organisation will be anonymised. Sprint Retrospective using the World Cafe Method The method: The World Cafe is a large group facilitation technique that facilitates people to engage in dialogue. It's simple and effective. The 7 principles follow below. Setting - set up the environment for small group discussion. Use round tables covered in flipchart paper or a paper…

09Aug 2017 by theagileway No Comments

My InfoQ Interview on Anti-Patterns of Agile Leaders

Interviews, Leadership, Talks

After speaking at Agile Practitioners 2016 in Tel Aviv, Ben Linders interviewed me about the important role leaders have in agile. It was originally published on InfoQ on February 25, 2016. I have copied it and you can read it below or on InfoQ. (more…)

08Jul 2017 by theagileway No Comments

Meet The Coach: Regina Martins

Agile, Interviews, Leadership, Personal

Originally published on the agile42 website on 13 May 2016. Interview with agile42 South Africa coach Regina Martins about her path and approach to coaching. In this new instalment of our "Meet the Coach" series we talked with Johannesburg-based coach Regina Martins about change, the Agile world and "the smell of the place". (more…)

07Mar 2016 by theagileway No Comments

The Spiderman Antidote to the Anti-patterns of Agile Leaders

Leadership, Scrum, Talks

This annual event is happening on the 19th and 20th October and this year it is in Johannesburg. My proposal for a 90-minute workshop was accepted and I am speaking on the 19th - The Spiderman Antidote to the Anti-patterns of Agile Leaders. (more…)