Category: Leadership

As someone who works with apprentices and trainees, I have a perspective on how people learn and what methods are most effective for conveying information. My experience has taught you that different people have different learning styles, and that finding the right approach can be critical to their success. By understanding the science of learning and the different methods that exist, I can be a more effective mentor and guide to those I work with. Having expertise in this area is invaluable, and I hope this post helps to further enhance your understanding of how humans learn. How Humans Learn Humans learn in many different ways, but in general, the learning process involves taking in new information, processing it, and …

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The answer to that question according to the Scrum Alliance is: An agile coach helps individuals, teams, and entire enterprises embrace a culture shift based on proven human-centric agile principles, practices, and values. This culture shift helps people and organizations continue to thrive in the ever-changing world of work. That sounds good to me, so let’s dig a bit deeper into what is the actual work that an agile coach does in order to help individuals, teams and entire enterprises. Does an agile coach actually coach? To answer that you need to find out what it actually takes to embrace a culture shift based on proven human-centric agile principles, practices, and values. Obviously an agile coach needs to convey values …

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The role of the product owner comes with a lot of responsibility and things you supposed to do. However, there are also things that you shouldn’t do. This post brings attention to 5 Product Owner anti-patterns that you should avoid as they either harm your product or your team. Not being able to make decisions This is probably the number one anti-pattern for a product owner. As the product owner, it is your responsibility to make decisions that will move your product forward. This includes making tough calls and sometimes disappointing stakeholders. If you are not able to make decisions, you will quickly find yourself bogged down in analysis paralysis and your team will lose confidence in you. Making decisions …

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