Category: Agile
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Bring teams together by using Team Heart model

Have you worked with teams who lack understanding of each other and have miss-aligned expectations? In short, they are under-estimating each other’s potential and missing the opportunity to achieve greater things together. Continue reading to know how I experimented…
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IWA: How a video call can help to enhance remote working experience?
In a remote working environment, effective communication is key to the success of a team and keeping the people engaged and motivated. The video call is a great alternative for an in-person meeting where communication happens face to face using digital tools. Though it is often challenging to understand the…
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Hot Air Balloon Retrospective Model

Are you using any metaphor in your Retrospective meetings? Using Metaphors in our conversations can help us to understand an object, conversation or action from a different perspective. They can also serve as a powerful tool leading us to think in new or a different way. In this post, I…
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Visualization – Agile Team Facilitation – Mindset
Here is a visualization of Agile Team Facilitation – Mindset (ICAgile ICP-ATF Learning objectives)
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What is the difference between an Agile Coach and a Scrum Master?
From my experience, I see an overlap in the roles of an Agile Coach and a Scrum Master in an organization. Both complement each other and appreciate the Agile values, principles, and practices. However, the scope and influence of each role are different.
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Why is it important to understand the Agile mindset?
Let’s answer this question in two steps, first starting with building an understanding of an Agile mindset. Step 1: What is an Agile mindset? There are two explanations that have helped me to understand it. Definition 1- An Agile mindset is an approach to managing uncertainty (Ahmad Sidky) Fail fast…
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Talk: Let’s make meetings greater again – An introduction to Agile Team Facilitation
How would you rate the meetings you have attended in the past? 1-5 stars. What did you like and what you wanted to improve? How was the participation and were you able to achieve its objective(s)? How was the decision made? If you want to make your meetings greater again…
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My personal reflection on brain-based instruction and effective training design and delivery

In this post, I will compare and contrast what I knew about brain-based instruction and effective training design and delivery before I attended “Training from the BACK of the Room” with what I now know. (I am also a Certified Trainer for this course). What were some assumptions I made…
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Car Retrospective Model

Are you using any metaphor in your Retrospective meetings? Using Metaphors in our conversations can help us to understand an object, conversation or action from a different perspective. They can also serve as a powerful tool leading us to think in new or a different way. This post describes a Car…
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Talk: A nerd’s story from developing software to developing people – An Agile coaching journey
Regional Scrum Gathering, March 2019 India talk (given in the form of a webinar) Replay the talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6CCiv3Z0iY Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/devork/an-agile-coaching-journey-khurram-bhatti-rsg-india-2019 Talk Description In 2003, I started my first internship at a small company. It was simple and yet amazing to integrate different open source products into a working solution…
