Published in Agile Batman·Mar 25Member-onlyBuild a skills matrix for your teamand help create a culture of continuous learning and improvement — When you work in a team that has everything it needs, you can be unstoppable! Creating a skills matrix is a great way to see what skills you already have and what you need to acquire in order to succeed together. What is cross-functionality and why is it important? When using the scrum framework to build products, your…Technology4 min readTechnology4 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Mar 4Member-onlyUsing Kanban practices within Scrum — Work In ProgressWork smarter, not harder — I’ve been doing a deep dive into Kanban recently and wanted to share some of the things I’ve learned and how to apply them in the Scrum teams you work with on a daily basis. I’ve specifically been focussing on the 4 metrics of flow, and this time we’re looking…Scrum6 min readScrum6 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Feb 13Member-onlyUsing Kanban practices within Scrum — Cycle TimeI’ve been doing a deep dive into Kanban recently and wanted to share some of the things I’ve learned and how to apply them in the Scrum teams you work with on a daily basis. I’ve specifically been focussing on the 4 metrics of flow, and this time we’re looking…Scrum5 min readScrum5 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Jan 22Member-onlyUsing Kanban practices within Scrum — ThroughputIn trying to help our teams maintain a sustainable pace, it helps to understand what that pace might be. Throughput can be a great place to start and it’s a super easy metric to track. Read on to get started. If your team regularly completes “right sized” pieces of work…Scrum6 min readScrum6 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Dec 23, 2022Agile books to read in 2023Here’s a list of all the books I’ve read in 2022 surrounding the topic of agile and why I chose to read them in the first place. …Agile6 min readAgile6 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Dec 15, 2022Member-onlyHelp passing the PSK 1 and PK 1 assessmentsI’ve recently passed both the PSK 1 (Professional Scrum with Kanban — scrum.org) and PK 1 (Professional Kanban 1 - prokanban.org) assessments and wanted to share the journey I’ve been on and the resources I used, to hopefully help you on your own journey to Kanban success! Whilst I started…Technology5 min readTechnology5 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Nov 30, 2022Member-onlyUsing Kanban practices within Scrum — Work Item AgeingI’ve been doing a deep dive into Kanban recently and wanted to share some of the things I’ve learned and how to apply them in the Scrum teams you work with on a daily basis. One of the most powerful practices I’ve come across so far is work-item ageing. We’ll…Scrum7 min readScrum7 min read
Nov 2, 2022Member-onlyInvest in yourselfI’ve created a little feedback loop that really started to accelerate my professional development and wanted to share it with you. How it came about I initially set up agilebatman.com on a hosted Wordpress site to share tips about being an agile coach. I didn’t want to repeat the theory of agile and scrum…Self2 min readSelf2 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Oct 22, 2022Member-onlyUsing JIRA to automatically create burn up chartsI’ll show you how you can easily set up a JIRA burn up chart, so that you can have the right conversations around when something might be done in the future. If you haven’t read the manual way of creating this chart, please read my first post detailing a step-by-step…Scrum6 min readScrum6 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Oct 15, 2022Member-onlyA step by step guide to building burn up chartsWhat is a burn up chart? A burn up chart shows our progress towards completing a large piece of work over a long period of time. It shows us what we’ve completed, and what impact changing scope has on our completion date. It shows us those decisions over time. In this article, I’ll show you how…Scrum9 min readScrum9 min read
