There are many reasons why I love listening to music. Some people enjoy music for its musical components, storytelling, melody, and rhythm. For others, music serves as a way of self-expression and expressing their emotions. One of the main reasons why I like listening to music in everyday life is that it can evoke various […]
One-to-One Meetings
One-to-one meetings are pivotal to establishing trust and improving communication with the team’s memebers and within the team itself. In a one-to-one meeting, a Scrum Master and a team member discuss ongoing performance, feedback, and career development. These meetings foster trust and build relationships, which increases team’s member engagement and productivity. As a Scrum Master, […]
Get To Know Your Team Members Beyond The Office
Not so long time ago I talked about launching a new Scrum team. Today I’d like to share some ideas on how to get to know the members of your team better. When teams are first forming, they often consist of people who have never worked together before. In order to work effectively together, team […]
Launching a New Scrum Team
Every Scrum Master or Agile Coach launches new Scrum teams from scratch. Launching a new Scrum team can be an exciting and challenging task. I have already launched quite a few teams and I would like to share my experience. Let’s imagine the situation: you have all team members already and need to start launching […]
Estimation Of User Stories In Story Points
How often do you, as a Scrum Master or Agile coach, face the problem of estimating tasks in a Scrum team? I regularly run across this problem when launching new teams. Estimating the time required to complete a task is simultaneously a very simple and very complex, and sometimes very risky task that all development […]
I Began Diving Into Storytelling
How often do you run across misunderstanding, rejection, resistance when you need to explain any complicated topic? How to build emotional and lively communication with the participants of the meeting? How can we send the participants the main idea we want to explain and do it softly? Storytelling will help with this – a way […]
Workshop How To Work With Conflicts
Once again I dived into the world of eduScrum. Do you remember what eduScrum is? eduScrum is a learning organization system in which the teacher delegates responsibility for the learning process to teams. But responsibility cannot simply be “given away”, it must be done in such a way that the students want and are able […]
English As Team’s T-Shape
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]