Agile

Toby Sinclair

May 3, 20208 min read

Book Summary: A Scrum Book by Jeff Sutherland | The Big Ideas and Actions

3 Big Ideas 1. Scrum Guide defines the rules of Scrum but gives no indication of “how” to implement. Patterns provide a guide “how” to...

Toby Sinclair

Mar 24, 20203 min read

Behaviour-By-Example – How to behave during coronavirus

The Coronavirus has been a great demonstration of how difficult drive behaviour change. Yesterday the UK Government mandated stricter...

Toby Sinclair

Nov 25, 20183 min read

How to measure coaching conditions – The “Agile” Shipping Forecast

The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. In...

Toby Sinclair

Sep 29, 20172 min read

What's wrong with the Agile Mindset? | Naïve Realism in Agile Transformations

Have you noticed anyone driving slower than you is an idiot? And anyone going faster than you is a maniac? This is known as the false...

Toby Sinclair

Sep 3, 20172 min read

How to lead a Transformational Retrospective

Do your retrospectives look like this? Team members walk into the room reluctantly. The Scrum Master throws out the Post-It notes onto...

Toby Sinclair

Mar 25, 20172 min read

How to supercharge a workshop with Learning Maps

I’m sure we have all been to many workshops and the first thing a facilitator presents is the agenda for the day. If you are lucky this...

Toby Sinclair

Mar 19, 20172 min read

Tate Modern + Babel + Mental Models + Dialogue + Agile Transformation

This weekend I took a trip to Tate Modern, London. One of the exhibitions that caught my eye was Cildo Meireles ‘Babel’ (2001) Babel 2001...

Toby Sinclair

May 25, 20164 min read

How to do Example Mapping

A few months ago i came across Matt Wynne’s post about Example Mapping on the cucumber blog. During XP2016 I attended Matt’s Example...

Toby Sinclair

Nov 15, 20153 min read

How to have successful conversations

Successful conversations are central to agile teams. As it states in the Agile manifesto: “Individuals and interactions over processes...