CHOW #306 – Is my team improving?

Shashikanth is the manager of the scrum teams you are coaching for the last few months. He has been very helpful and enthusiastic about the Agile Transformation initiative. He has heard that scrum teams tend to show an increasing trend in their velocity, once they are in a steady state. He is eager to see […]

CHOW #304: Travails of a young coach

As agile coaches, we have all had our initial travails, cutting our teeth in the first engagement and at times learning the hard way. One can walk down memory lane, maybe with a rueful smile! Here is a quiz of three questions which may make you reminisce! For those who are not coaches, it may […]

Dog food for Agile coaches

Many of you would be familiar with the expression “eat your own dog food”. Eating your own dog food or “dogfooding” is the practice of using one’s own products or services.  Dogfooding is not exactly new. Here are some examples: In February 1980, Mike Scott, president of Apple issued a memo announcing “Effective Immediately!! No more typewriters […]