Operational Practices: Streamlining Workflows for Continuous Improvement

Explains why using blocked columns for stalled tasks on project boards harms workflow, and suggests better ways to highlight and address blocked work …

Explores how adopting a shared framework and structured communication can turn team chaos into collaboration, boosting trust, engagement, and …

Explains the Scrum Master's role in ensuring team delivery by fostering agility, removing blockers, and being accountable for improving team …

Explores practical ways to apply agile training at work, using experimentation, group engagement techniques, and virtual tools to boost collaboration …

Enable Business Agility to rapidly adapt, innovate, and deliver value in an ever-changing market.

Managing and reducing technical debt to maintain sustainable development velocity.

Resilience must be designed into products from the start, not added later. Build systems to detect, contain, and recover from failures, making …

Martin is in EST for 6 months and available for hands-on consulting in North America. This month’s spotlight: How tracking estimation accuracy is …

Explores how technical excellence in Agile development reduces risk, prevents technical debt, and boosts product quality and delivery speed through …

Professional Scrum Teams prioritise software quality, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring each release is reliable, defect-free, and …

The foundation of Agile: clean code, automation, and test-first development.

Many organisations cite software complexity as a barrier to continuous delivery, but real obstacles are technical debt and lack of investment in …

Managing the development, maintenance, and governance of software applications throughout their lifecycle.

Explains how Scrum Sprints are primarily for planning, not fixed delivery, and discusses aligning delivery schedules, continuous deployment, and …

Explores common DevOps challenges to rapid delivery, highlighting automation, feedback loops, mindset shifts, and compliance for achieving agile, …

Releases feel risky when teams lack a clear Definition of Done. Learn how a strong DoD ensures stress-free, reliable software delivery with built-in …

Explores why special sprints like Sprint Zero or hardening sprints undermine Agile by delaying work, increasing risk, and reducing continuous delivery …

Stop chasing trends—build real agility. Discover how DevOps and agile create resilient teams, smoother delivery, and sustainable adaptability.

Learn three key Agile strategies: define clear completion criteria, avoid overcommitting in Sprints, and prioritise backlog refinement for better team …

Incompetent Scrum Masters reduce team performance and ROI by lacking key skills. Learn how to measure their impact using innovation, usage, and …

Practical experience is essential for effective Scrum Masters; certification alone is insufficient. True expertise comes from guiding teams, solving …

Intensive five-day course for software developers covering Scrum, Visual Studio 2010, .NET, and Agile practices through hands-on team sprints and …

The process of delivering usable working software products to customers, including planning, development, testing, and deployment.

Common Goals are a first principle of effective delivery. They align strategy with execution, enabling every decision, every Sprint, and every line of …

Explores why diligence—consistent attention to quality and standards—is vital in Agile teams, how it’s often overlooked, and practical steps to foster …

Guidance for identifying genuine agile software development in DoD projects, including key principles, warning signs, essential tools, and critical …

Explores key qualities of an effective Scrum Master, focusing on team empowerment, backlog management, collaboration, and removing organisational …

Learn how to spot fake Agile practices using six key questions from the US Department of Defense, and discover steps to assess and improve true Agile …

Discover how evidence-based management empowers Agile leaders to make data-driven decisions, foster continuous improvement, and boost team performance …

Explains how self-managing teams in Scrum need structure and leadership, clarifying the Scrum Master's role in maintaining clarity, alignment, and …

Explores the impact of lacking feedback and engagement in Agile teams, highlighting risks and offering strategies to boost stakeholder involvement and …

Working software is the tangible, functional output produced during a Sprint, representing a concrete artifact that delivers value to customers.

Enhancing teamwork, communication, and shared ownership for high performance.

Learn practical strategies for effective product backlog management in Agile, including prioritisation, refinement, stakeholder engagement, and tools …

Learn how evidence-based metrics drive organisational success, avoid negative behaviours, and enable transparent, data-driven decisions for leaders …

Explains an effective branching strategy for Scrum teams, covering best practices, common pitfalls, and step-by-step guidance for managing code, …

Coordinate multiple teams to deliver complex products while preserving agility. Focus on alignment, flow, and value delivery across the enterprise …

Explores how evidence-based management uses data-driven practices to improve organisational agility, value delivery, and decision-making in both …

Explains how to use a single Team Project and Team Field in TFS to streamline cross-team work item tracking, reporting, and collaboration across …

Liberating Structures is a set of simple, adaptable facilitation methods designed to make meetings more interactive, inclusive, and productive. Each …

Explores why Agile fails without addressing systemic issues, highlighting the need for organisational change, meaningful metrics, and the courage to …

Explores how Agile teams can avoid overloading backlogs, Sprints, and products by focusing on prioritisation, value delivery, and lean, effective …

Learn how product owners use Evidence-Based Management (EBM) to make data-driven decisions, track key value metrics, and maximise product value and …

Learn how to use Azure DevOps to set up and customise Caman boards for clear workflow visualisation, shared rules, and effective work management in …

Learn how to avoid common mistakes in Azure DevOps, improve agile workflows, maintain traceability, and simplify processes for better team …

Explains why story points and velocity can mislead Agile teams, and recommends focusing on throughput, cycle time, and customer value for effective …

Explains the role of automated testing in modern software development, covering types, integration, benefits, challenges, and tools for maintaining …

Explains how breaking large tasks into smaller batches improves workflow, predictability, and delivery speed, using hands-on exercises based on …

Learn how Kanban practices can be integrated into Professional Scrum teams to improve workflow, transparency, and delivery using the new Scrum.org PSK …

Learn how Agile principles help businesses improve predictability by addressing challenges, optimising systems, aligning goals, and adapting to change …

Learn how to use Kanban metrics like cycle time and throughput to improve team predictability, make accurate forecasts, and deliver consistent project …

Explains how resource efficiency focuses on maximising individual output, while flow efficiency optimises the entire workflow for better value …

Detailed walkthrough of a complex Team Foundation Server migration, covering remediation, hardware moves, upgrades, user management, and validation in …

Step-by-step guide to upgrading TFS 2008 and WSS v3.0 with SfTSv2 to TFS 2010 and SharePoint 2010, including process template migration and data …

Learn how evidence-based management uses data and purposeful metrics to inform decisions, shape behaviours, and drive continuous improvement in …

Explains how Kanban helps creative teams organise workflows, reduce chaos, prioritise tasks, and improve efficiency without stifling creativity, using …

Explains why effective product backlog management is vital in Agile, highlights common pitfalls, and offers practical tips to improve team focus, …

Learn practical skills for effective product backlog management, including item creation, prioritisation, breakdown, and alignment with business goals …

Explains when to use Areas versus Team Projects in TFS 2010, comparing benefits, drawbacks, and best practices for managing multiple projects and …

Learn how to customise Team Foundation Server 2013 to add a multi-level Portfolio Backlog hierarchy by editing work item types, categories, and …