T-shape is very important for everyone. It doesn’t matter whether you are a developer or not. It gives a lot of possibilities to develop yourself in many fields. I regularly talk about it to the teams I am working with. As the result one of my Russian-speaking teams decided to develop not only technical skills, […]
Summing up 2022
So, 2022 is over. By tradition, I would like to look back and to do the retrospective: recall all the most interesting and important what happened to me along my learning path last year. Well, let’s go. What happened to me in 20212? I will tell you about the key moments and events. February In […]
My New Step in Learning – Business Analysis Fundamentals
How familiar are you with the typical process model of a company and the basics of process optimization? Don’t you think that since the Scrum Master or Agile Coach work with teams and with the company as a whole, it is necessary for them to know the way the processes in the company are arranged? […]
Objectives and Key Results
Today, 09.11.2022, I took part in the online webinar OKR Review: Gather Your First Goals for “Objective and Key Results” hosted by ScrumTrek. It was a two-hour seminar with an overview and Q&A on this topic. I would like to thank Sergey Rogachev, Konstantin Khokhrin and Ivan Seleverstov for organizing and holding this event and for detailed answers to the questions of […]
I got Management 3.0 Certificate
In October 2022, I took a very interesting training Management 3.0 A new look at leadership. The training was conducted by ScrumTrek and the trainer was Sergey Lipchansky. The training lasted two days and was built on theoretical blocks interspersed with practical exercises. At the end of the training I got certificate. On the first […]
I was the Trainer at the Bank School of Scrum Masters
Last year I was very lucky: I was the trainer at the School of Scrum Masters in the bank. It was a unique experience. Any bank employee who wanted to gain more knowledge about the framework, areas of responsibility of the Scrum Master and the work itself in this role could apply to this School. […]
Assessment of Facilitaion and Training Skills
This spring we had an assessment of 40 Scrum Masters at my work. This event lasted more than a month and was hosted by an outside organization. We were eassessed on many aspects and among them were the practice of facilitation, preparation of facilitation plans, training skills. I found it very interesting and helpful. During […]
My Workshop on User Stories Decomposition
The elephant….a rather huge animal, isn’t? Is it possible to eat the whole elephant at one time? What do you think? Some of my teams really want to do this and, no doubt, they fail. The teams neglect to decompose large User Stories/Tasks too often. This happens because of many various reasons: they do not […]
I am a Trainer at Alfa-Academy
I have been conducting Scrum training for team members at Alfa-Academy for one year. This training lasts 3 days for 3 hours a day. This is a basic course during which the participants get acquainted with what Agile is, how it differs from other approaches, get acquainted with a framework Cynefin. On the second day […]
One Year of Working in the Bank
It’s been a year since I’ve been working at Alfa-Bank. I remember very well the day when I had to choose one of several job offers. It was spring, beginning of April 2021. By that day, I had already been interviewing for a month, two or three interviews a week. It was a difficult but […]