The agile office space
Many of us use agile techniques and principles in our work lives. But how would you apply it to your own business? This post is about how we at Growing Agile keep everything we do visual and prioritised. Planning & Structure We split our days …
What I learned pairing at Chillisoft
Last week Sam and I visited Durban to do some Scrum training. We were invited to join Chillisoft on Monday afternoon for their ‘Intention Practice’. Always keen to see how others improve themselves, we joined them eagerly. Every Monday from 3pm to 6pm, Chillisoft have …
Retrospective Experiments
We often hear about people who do retrospectives but struggle to get the team to agree to actions that really make a difference. Sometimes people struggle to come up with actions if they did well in a sprint. We’ve had this problem ourselves. Something we …
Growing Agile: A Coach’s Guide to Training Scrum
This year has seen a big change for Growing Agile. We decided to focus on coaching and internal training as opposed to public training courses. For public training we now only offer classes for more experienced agile practitioners. Although many people wish we were still …
Is your Scrum Master worth it?
Looking through the latest results of our salary survey, I am struck with a hint of regret. I know that since we started publishing this data last year, recruiters, HR, managers and Scrum Masters themselves have been using this as a source for what people …
2013 Scrum Master Salary Survey Results
Thank you to everyone who filled in our salary survey this year. Here are the results you have all been waiting for! If you would like to do your own analysis, the raw data is available here. We have more than double the data we …
Have lunch with TED
Agile is about continuous improvement. How do get inspiration for new things to try to improve? We look in many places: books, blog posts, colleagues. However these all take time. Need new ideas in your lunch-break? Our suggestion is to watch one TED video each …
Advanced Scrum Master – my experience
By Stewart Scott The company I work for suggested I attended the two day Advanced Scrum Master Course from Growing Agile. I was initially a little sceptical because in my experience any course with the word ‘advanced’ in the title doesn’t often live up to …
The Magic Column
Late last year, whilst on an Agile Testing course, Janet Gregory shared a little secret with us. We didn’t realise how awesome this secret was until we did a simulation and saw the effect on the entire team. Recently we taught this secret to a …
Team Training – a dev managers story
By Greg Peringuey Having done quite a bit of my own research around agile and scrum, I decided to take the next step and get myself on some certified training. This is where I met Karen and Sam from Growing Agile. The Certified Scrum Master …
