Month: April 2018

April 23, 2018

Greg Thomas

Work When you are Weak

When your inspiration is low. When your last experiment failed. When you don’t have any ideas. When everything you have tried has failed. When you feel down on yourself. When you tried your best and were critiqued by everyone. When the bills are coming in and the checks aren’t there. When the followers have left. When the bots are not even liking your work. That’s when you sit down, at the table, just you and no one else and you work. You figure the way out, you find the path, you grind it out and you turn it around. But

April 20, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Key to a Successful Morning Stand-Up

The Leader of the Stand-Up knows what everyone is doing before the call begins. Very simple, often ignored. Stand-Ups are not about what is in the queue or what is showing red on the Kanban board, it’s about what is coming next and what the team needs to be moving towards. A Stand-Up where everyone repeats what is currently in their task queue is a waste of a stand-up and an interruption to everyone’s deliverables. The Leader of a Stand-Up must come in already knowing what people are working on and where they are going to next.  From there, creating

April 19, 2018

Greg Thomas

What is the Answer That will Make you Happy?

I’ve taken to asking people this question when they approach me in an obviously perturbed manner that is a combination of frustration, anger, confusion, or any other malcontent emotion. What is the Answer you want to hear that will make you happy? In all cases, they are immediately taken aback, not because I’m being rude (I do try to be pleasant even when the emotions are running high) but rather because they are trying to think of what answer will actually them happy. And they don’t know, they don’t know what answer they want to hear. From here you have

April 18, 2018

Greg Thomas

I’m Ready for More

But we’re not ready for you. And therein died their new process they had put so much hope into. A member of the team had finished everything on their plate and was ready to take on more but the team and process let them down.   So what did this person do all day? Browsed the internet? Maybe optimized some code? Read some articles? Most likely waited for the next day’s SCRUM where they got to say – “I still have nothing to do.” Whatever you implement, common sense needs to rule the day, if someone says they have cycles,

April 17, 2018

Greg Thomas

Sniffing Markers: Scrum Bums

I think this is one of my favourite episodes to date, primarily because of the format. There was none. I had a question and in typical fashion, Colin and I spent our time going back and forth. If you’re confused about the usefulness of SCRUMS and where things with your SCRUM could be going wrong – this is the episode for you. As always, please rank, review and connect with us on Facebook! Download the latest episode here – https://sniffingmarkers.libsyn.com/ep19-scrumbums[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6468874/height/200/width/450/theme/standard/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/” height=”200″ width=”450″ placement=”bottom” theme=”standard”]

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