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Team Leader in a Scrum Team?

Krzysztof Liszewski
Change
October 7, 2020October 7, 2020

Scrum Team is composed of the Development Team, Scrum Master and Product Owner. That’s it. What happens if you add Team Leader or Tech Leader to this composition? Why would like to do that at all? In this article I… Read More »

Tower defence retrospective

Krzysztof Liszewski
Change
July 29, 2020July 29, 2020

Tower defence is a group of games, where enemies wave by wave attack your home trying to destroy it. To defend it, you place towers that shoot near enemies. Usually there are multiple types of towers and multiple types of… Read More »

Scrum Master in quarantine – part 2

Krzysztof Liszewski
Change, Courage
April 20, 2020April 20, 2020

This is the second part “Scrum Master in quarantine”, article in which I share my own experiences. See part one. Focus on people Some people claim they are more efficient when working from home as they can avoid sitting in… Read More »

Scrum Master in quarantine – part 1

Krzysztof Liszewski
Change, Courage
April 15, 2020April 15, 2020

Scrum Master role is neither easy to fulfill, nor easy to explain. Being Scrum Master for a distributed team is even more tricky. One of the advices for distributed Scrum Masters is that you should try to meet in person… Read More »

About adaptation or how we lose opportunities to change

Krzysztof Liszewski
Change, Courage
September 22, 2019September 22, 2019

People adapt to the environment are in. That’s the human nature – no matter how hard it is, you try to adapt to the existing conditions. Such behaviour comes directly from primal areas of our brain and is a cornerstone… Read More »

Retrospective doesn’t need to be boring

Krzysztof Liszewski
Change, Courage
September 2, 2019September 22, 2019

Retrospective is an opportunity to take a deep breath after the Sprint and focus on learning and improving. It’s also the most visual form of inspect & adapt cycle in Scrum framework, and time when the Team can analyze what… Read More »

How to manage technical debt

Krzysztof Liszewski
Change, Simplicity
July 3, 2019September 22, 2019

Let’s talk a bit about technical debt. There will be some theory, but I hope this article won’t be against my Manifesto. I’m still aiming to give you practical tools for discussion and to explain why and how to manage… Read More »

Satisfaction foot

Krzysztof Liszewski
Change, Courage
June 24, 2019June 25, 2019
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Have you ever thought on how to quickly identify all problems related to a specific thing – project, iniciative, sprint? Or how to rank them and engage everyone, no matter whether you have group of 5 or 50 people? Sounds… Read More »

Quality vs quantity

Krzysztof Liszewski
Change, Simplicity
June 16, 2019September 22, 2019

Let’s talk a bit about: quality vs quantity? I’ll anchor this debate in Scrum – so the main actors will be Product Owner and Development Team – however the same would apply to any other Agile framework. Imagine there are… Read More »