Pat and Paul have made the announcement to the Development Team, to you, the ScrumMaster and to the Organization, that going forward they will be Co-Product Owners for the initiative kicking off with this release.

May has been dedicated to Collaborative Leadership Team graduates and their Scrum stories outside of their “day job”. We close this month with Paul Carter’s “Agile Family Guy”. Enjoy!

You sit sipping your coffee as you prepare for Sprint Planning that will take place later this morning.  As you review the calendar for the next two weeks, Ted and Janine, two of your team members approach. Ted has been reluctant in adopting Scrum and Agile.

Flipping a House with Scrum?  Can you really do that?  Collaborative Leadership Team received an email from Tom, one of our Minneapolis graduates while he was in the process of doing just that.

That’s not Agile! So what? A common phrase we hear at our coaching clients or in Agile and Scrum training classes is “But that’s not Agile!”  As Agile and Scrum coaches our answer is “So what?”  Angela Johnson, Certified Scrum Trainer shares perspectives on the defenses and disconnects that this phrase causes. What is Agile?