Legacy

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

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

A little respect for the Scrum Master

I spend my days working with software developers and helping them get work done better, faster, and with higher quality than they did before.  This week, I wanted to take some time to

Some things every scrum master should say.

As a scrum master, it is easy to get enveloped in gloom and doom.  You are removing impediments, trying to change the corporate culture and learning to work with people who think you