The standup meeting & Agile team meeting The daily scrum, or daily standup meeting, is an essential part of the daily agile ritual and a defining part of the scrum framework; it can either enhance or undermine a development team’s functionality and effectiveness...
Scrum Training Articles
From becoming a certified scrum master to learning how scrum training works in the first place, Leadership Tribe is here to work with you every step of the way. Learn how to work with various team members with our insight blogs and videos.
Who Owns Quality in a Scrum Team
Ask that question and you face one more: What am I asking about? In the spirit and work of the Agile scrum, the developers take responsibility for producing the increment, the iteration, and in that sense own the product quality. As part of this process, teams often...
What is Scrum Methodology?
Scrum is a project management methodology. It’s used to plan projects by breaking down a whole project into smaller groups of tasks to be completed in iterations. It’s about managing tasks and delivering a product increment by increment. It was devised by Jeff...
What’s the difference between Agile and Scrum Training?
Agile vs Scrum Agile is the software development process characterized by concurrent product development and testing activity, and by regular delivery of software for customer feedback, in order to implement continuous improvement throughout a project lifecycle from...
Scrum Master Vs. Project Manager: what is the difference?
We often see the terms of Project Manager and Scrum Master used interchangeably in agile practices. Their roles tend to get blurred in the current work environment. But what are the main differences between a scrum master and project management professional? Should...
Scrum Master – A Project Manager?
I always wondered about the effectiveness of Scrum Masters and Scrum Teams in developing complex products. An Aha! the moment occurred when I recently attended a training workshop on Scrum. So what is Scrum Master and their role? I learnt that ‘Scrum is a framework...
The Hobbesian Trap – When to Play the Role of an Agile Coach or Consultant??
The 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes had discovered an interesting theory named the ‘Hobbesian Trap’ – when one is gripped by the fear of being attacked, he pre-empts by arming himself, which instils fear on the (would be) ‘attacker’ who in turn upgrades...
Agile Metrics – What are the Best Metrics?
I have been working as an Agile coach for one of the top-tier companies in the world. I want to share my experience working with leaders and teams in regard to Agile metrics. To give a high-level background, one of my clients has adopted the Spotify organisational...
Golden Circle Theory with Scrum Practices
Why, How and what with SCRUM? We all have been studying/doing/practising Scrum ceremonies for years now and we all agree that the Scrum ceremonies are key for the teams and projects success. I have been working with teams in my organization with regards to Scrum...
How a Scrum Ceremony Unlocks Hidden Human Potential
Scrum suggests 3 roles (The team, ScrumMaster, and product owner), four ceremonies (the sprint planning meeting, Daily Scrum, sprint review meeting, and sprint retrospective meeting), and three artifacts (the product increment, product backlog, and sprint backlog). A...