Geoff Mazeroff

Agile How Agile Are You and How Agile Do You Want to Be? (via Leading Agile) There are different styles of work, and how you deal with those needs to change. The practices aren’t enough; you need to consider the…

Agile The Art of Business Value Given my role as an Agile subject matter expert at Lirio, reading this book is part of my self-guided professional development. Value is everyone’s responsibility — not just the business, not just the product…

Agile Are We Really Bad at Estimating? (via Mountain Goat Software) We’re good at estimating tasks we’re familiar with (e.g., commuting, cleaning the house). Suppose a project will take 1000 hours, but you won’t know that until the project is…

Agile 9 Things Wildly Successful Agile Coaches Do (via Agile Amped) Agile Coaching Exchange (ACE) in North America is an organization with an intent to bring coaches together around the mission of building competency and community — http://agilecoachingexchange.com/ (The guest,…

Agile Estimates Are Non-Transferrable (via Steve Smith) There are so many factors that go into determining an estimate, including who will actually be doing the work. This article supports that arguments with some examples, and a list of things to…

Agile Emerging From Crisis By Putting People Above Profits (via Agile Amped) With recent COVID-19 layoffs, Vaco partnered with GiveCamp Memphis to help charities that can’t do various tech things on their own. They paired people impacted by COVID-19 to…

Agile Product Owner is a Bad Bad Idea (via Maarten Dalmijn) Two heavy hitters — Mary Poppendieck and Mike Cohn — have recently stated that the product owner (PO) role is a proxy between the people doing the work and…

Agile Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5 Distilled (via Wade Chandler) Part of my professional development as Director of Agile Coaches is to understand what tools and frameworks exist in the Agile space. SAFe is a framework for doing Agile beyond…

Agile Is 2020 a Gold Rush Year for New Scrum Masters? (via Mountain Goat Software) Many businesses need less convincing that Agile frameworks are helpful, so having people to facilitate Agile workflows are in higher demand. Some people may move…

Agile Leadership vs. Management (via Leading Agile) Manage the system, lead the people. Instead of telling people how to move faster, remove the blockers that are slowing the system down. Leadership — the ability to motivate and inspire those around…