Time again, when working with product teams building software applications, the big question always is, “When will it be done?”

Motivational Interviewing is a goal-oriented way of having a collaborative conversation with a person or group, while paying particular attention to the language of change.

One of the values closely embraced when working in an agile environment is transparency. If we aren’t transparent then we may give obscure answers to questions or act with muddied behavior not clearly understood by anyone.

As agile coaches, if we don’t focus on making relationship management an integral part of our teachings, we are doing our team a major disservice.

One of the hardest things for the Scrum Master to do is to get team members to show up and participate in meetings. One way to combat this is to provide incentives to your Scrum team.

In a previous blog, we discussed 4 strategic alignment and funding antipatterns. Here, we focus on the remaining 8 operational antipatterns.

Scrum Masters need to be willing to engage with an open mind while remaining focused on what they want to accomplish. Here are five tips that you can use to better position yourself to succeed as a new Scrum Master.

Companies embark on their Agile transformations every day, but how do they do it and what are the common agile transformation steps?

As Scrum Masters, we need to help our organizations identify and work through "bottlenecks". We first identify what these blockers are, then prioritize each item and tackle the highest impact items first.

The Agile product backlog evolves over time. The process of refining the backlog is a core part of Scrum.

The role of a Scrum Master can be difficult. How do you take your Scrum Master skills to the next level? How do you become a great Scrum Master?

What exactly is the MVP and what is the best path to reach this state?  It is vital to define your MVP as early in the process as possible, but constantly refining it will be pivotal.  Let us dig a bit deeper into exactly what the MVP is all about, how to attain it, and also how to sell it once complete.

How much attention do you give to your team’s velocity?  If the answer is very little or none, it is time to change that.  Velocity is an important metric to track in the Agile and Scrum space.

How do you know how well you are doing against team expectations?  Two mechanisms within Agile that can help are the burndown and burnup charts.

Unless you have been living on a remote island unconnected from civilization for the past few decades, you have no doubt heard the term “servant leadership.” It has a very interesting past and may go back farther than you think.

One of the core principles of Agile is the idea of co-location.  This means the development team is all located in the same office, each day they work.  That reality is not in sync with the way most of us work.

We examine this Sprint to detail how it fits into the Agile puzzle to improve the effectiveness of implementation and execution.

We cover three great facilitated voting techniques. These techniques are dot voting, fist of five, and thumb voting.

The three official three Scrum Artifacts, as outlined in the Scrum Guide, are: Sprint Backlog, Product Backlog, and Product Increment.

User Story Estimation should not on the how to do a task, but instead, the what the task is.