Legacy

The home of older blog posts that reflect on different times.

The darkness of a scrum master

The biggest challenges of a scrum master are personal challenges.  These emotions well up inside while you are doing your job.  It is confronting personal failure and the shortcomings of others. This week,

Globalization and a scrum master

Chicago in January, is an exercise in mental toughness.  I am sitting at my desk very early in the morning and it is single digits in Fahrenheit and deep in the negative in

My predictions for 2016

The holidays have ended and now it is time to get back to business in the New Year.  Last week, I discussed how I did with my predictions in 2015.  This week I

Making a difference

The other night I was having dinner with someone who worked as a nurse.  I understood what they did for a living and when they discussed their work it was easy to understand

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