You can't fight mother nature

This has been an unusual week.  My off-shore development team has been offline because of horrible flooding in Chennai, India. I have been worrying about the health and safety of my teams which

The coffee pot and innovation

Certain things happen in a business that are illustrative of that organization's culture and its approach to innovation.  This week, I wanted to share an example. The facts It is 8:

Product owner anti-patterns

Every scrum master must look for anti-patterns in how product owners do their jobs.  In a perfect world, the product owner and the scrum master are like siblings working toward the same goal.

When the Mad Hatter gets sick and tired.

The work of a scrum master is full of details, stress, and strain.  This week, it caught up with me, and I wound up in the hospital suffering from food poisoning and inflamed

Show some love for the product owner.

I spend a lot of time talking about agile and what it means to be a scrum master.  This week, I wanted to change things up a bit because I think many of