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Managers and leaders in organizations are often looking for ways to be more effective or to maximize the productivity of…
Anthony Mersino January 13, 2021
Leadership
I recently had a participant tell me that my Agile and Scrum Training for Teams class was 1,000% better than…
Anthony Mersino January 3, 2021
Strategy
A few months ago, I talked with a development manager whose teams switched to Scrum earlier this year. He expressed…
Anthony Mersino December 26, 2020
Strategy
This time of year in Chicago I can't help thinking about snow. We haven't had a real snowstorm yet but…
Anthony Mersino December 15, 2020
Strategy
I am frequently asked about the best books for learning about agile and Scrum. It's not easy to answer. I…
Anthony Mersino December 12, 2020
Books
I was teaching an introductory agile training course last week and noticed that many of the students got confused about…
Anthony Mersino November 28, 2020
Strategy
In a recent client conversation, the topic of estimating backlog items in hours came up. It seems that I stepped…
Anthony Mersino November 17, 2020
Strategy
User stories are extremely popular with agile teams and have become nearly synonymous with agile ways of working and Scrum,…
Anthony Mersino November 5, 2020
Strategy
I am excited to share with you my discussion with agility and resilience coach Anjali Leon. This is our first…
Anthony Mersino October 21, 2020
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In 2012, I was given my first opportunity to coach some new agile teams for a client. I was paired…
Anthony Mersino October 15, 2020
Strategy
Eighty percent of people who are using agile today use some flavor of the Scrum Framework. As you can imagine,…
Anthony Mersino September 30, 2020
Strategy
I wrote before about bad Scrum and other abuse of the Scrum Framework. One of the common abuses that I…
Anthony Mersino September 22, 2020
Strategy
In our previous posts, we looked at What is Kanban and Why is it Used and Getting Started with Kanban.…
Anthony Mersino September 16, 2020
Strategy
This post is the second in a series on Kanban, a lightweight agile approach for organizing work. In our previous…
Anthony Mersino September 10, 2020
Strategy
This post is first in a series about Kanban and how to get the most benefit from it. We will…
Anthony Mersino September 3, 2020
Strategy