The Agile Daily Standup - AgileDad

1. Acting as the team’s manager 2. Stay outside of the team 3. Suffocate Developers with meticulously crafted Product Backlog items 4. Determine the technology to be used 5. Push the scope of the Sprint 6. Ignore the team’s capacity 7. Lead the Daily Scrum 8. Enforce skipping parts of the DoD 9. Ignore the purpose of the Sprint Review How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad...

In today’s fast-paced business world, one of the most common struggles organizations face is how to  deliver products   faster  while still maintaining  high quality . Many teams feel bogged down by delays, inefficiencies, and bottlenecks. This is where value stream management comes in — a method to not only accelerate product delivery but to maximize the value delivered to your customers. The way...

Happy Halloween! What do you like best about the holiday: the candy, the costumes, or the scariness? The scariness wins for me, although a fun-size Snickers is hard to resist. But there’s good scary and bad. I’ve seen that adopting an agile approach to product development can be as scary as a good Halloween movie or ghost story. One thing that can be scary to some is the assumption that agile is m...

Happy Veterans Day! How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin]  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

Uplifting Message of Helping Hands What can you do to make a difference in the lives of others? How can you impact how others think and feel? What can you do to be a beacon of light love and hope? Join V. Lee Henson as we explore how happiness leads the way. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  http...

Pumpkin Spice Season - Mike Cohn Pumpkin spice season is upon us. It seems every company jumps on the pumpkin spice bandwagon. I enjoy the humorous memes such as for pumpkin spice tacos and even a pumpkin spice muffler for your car. I think pumpkin spice is so popular because it can be added to so many things. (But please keep it off my tacos.) In that way, pumpkin spice is like agile. A little ag...

Praise Is Your Products Worst Enemy When  I  talk to customers, I absolutely  love  negativity. I thrive on being told that I got it wrong, that I made a poor product decision or assumption, that I missed the mark, that I could have and should have done better. Call me a masochist, but the thing is this: I know that those lumps I receive are going to help me build a better product. Positivity, on...

Facts About Election Day Election Day in the United States is a cornerstone of democracy, representing the fundamental right of citizens to have a voice in their government. It is the day when millions of Americans head to the polls to choose leaders at all levels, from local offices to the presidency, helping to shape the direction of the nation for years to come. This day is not just about indiv...

How Product Discovery Should Work... By collaborating through continuous discovery, and making our thinking visible through the opportunity space, we can bring our overarching strategy to life. It will require leadership to no longer pretend they have all the answers, but to see that teams are clear on the strategic context and effective in bringing clients into the process of collaboration and di...

Return To The Office Is NOT working... Or Is It? In this Friday Episode, we explore whether or not returnong to the office is even an option? How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin]  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

Count Stories NOT Points.. It will NEVER Work October 31st is scary enough without having someone argue that it would be so much better if we just counted the number of stories completed each Sprint. I had to go back and look at the date on this article and make certain it was not April 1.... How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram....

Velocity & Throughput Are Full of Crap - I Think NOT... Join V. Lee Henson as we review an article that was written to rebuff the way that I treat story points and velocity without them making an effort to understand why I have success with this approach. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  htt...

Making Estimation Less Mysterious Does estimation always have to be so complicated? Why are we always under the impression that the only way to figure things out is if we revert back to time-based estimates? Is there a better way? How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/RealAgi...

The Slow Painful Death of Agile - Round 3 How many times is someone going to send me the most recent Agile is DEAD article? This will be round three and it in my opinion is the most frustrating article I have reviewed in a while... How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/RealAg...

Do NOT Search For a Job - The Job WILL Find You - 2024 The traditional approach to applying for jobs no longer works. The world has evolved, and so must you. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin]  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

Top 3 Essential Skills of The Product Owner 1. Domain Knowledge 2. Exceptional Communication 3. Product Backlog Management How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin]  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

Converting Story Points to Money - Mike Cohn It’s often worthless to tell a boss, client, or customer that a project will be done in, say, 142 story points. Even if stakeholders fully understand what a story point is, telling them how many points a project will take or cost isn’t awfully helpful to them. These stakeholders are accustomed to hearing how much time and money a project will take. And...

The #1 Most Common Mistake With User Stories Output is a fixation we can’t seem to shake in the product space. We continue to think we know the right product to build before we build it. This often shows up in the way we treat user stories as requirements. Even though many product teams and managers think user stories are requirements, they aren’t.  How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https...

Product Vision & Scrum Events A product vision is a succinct, inspiring articulation of where your product is heading. It embodies the essence of your product — the core values it upholds, the core needs it fulfils, or the core problems it solves. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www...

5 Ideas Fix Your Work Life Balance Focus only on your part of the pyramid Manage your energy levels, not hours Prioritize based on importance (and energy again) Rely on others when needed Say no and yes How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin]  https:/...

The Surprising Cost of Bad Estimates - Mike Cohn Bad plans lead to many well-known problems. Teams deliver later than expected. Or the budget is blown by adding people in the hope that will help. Sometimes a deadline is met but by dropping important features. Or the deadline is met by team members working overtime, causing burnout, frustration, and usually introducing bugs. Inaccurate plans frustr...

Happy Boss's Day - A Message From Kim How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin]  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

4 Reliable Traits of Genuinely High Performing Leaders Self-belief paired with humility Decisiveness A bias for action Thinking like a gymnast, not a sumo wrestler How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin]  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

How Relevant Are The Agile Principles Today? 2001 is the official birth year of Agile. It took the world by storm. Millions of professionals have found new ways of creating software (and other products) using the values and principles of the  Manifesto for Agile Software Development  (or Agile Manifesto). At the height of Agile, people saw it as a panacea for all software-related, even all product...

Why Can't You Enjoy Life? Living used to be colorful, and now it’s like I don’t even want to fight anymore. I don’t want to become ‘successful’. I don’t want to wake up and go to work, day after day. I don’t want to learn and I don’t want to read. I don’t want to explore the world. I don’t even want to entertain myself. What’s this?! How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad....