Mentoring
Mentoring and Mindfulness
Mindfulness is something you should practice as a mentor before you even start your first mentoring session.
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Prepare your Sprint Review!
The Sprint Review is a crucial event in Scrum that enable teams to showcase their product and gather feedback in order to identify what will make their product even better. How well are you prepared before starting your Review? Let's figure out!
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Building Organizations
Why Clarity Matters More Than Control with Jean-Baptiste Vasseur
What if the real problem in organisations is not people, but lack of clarity? I had the pleasure of joining Gregory Pepper for a conversation with Talkspirit about what I’ve observed over more than 20 years working in Japan.
Testing
Experiencing the Agile Testing Manifesto through a Lego Workshop
Learning the Agile Testing Manifesto values through a Lego workshop full of fun!
Coaching
Bringing the Coaching Mindset to Organizations
A coaching mindset is the practice of staying present with another person without stealing their responsibility, even when doing so would feel faster, safer, or more impressive. In that refusal, people begin to grow under their own power.
Coaching
Healing the Agile Trauma: my 2025 journey of rebuilding trust and partnership with a client
When facing a situation where the client is not coachable, you may decide to step down and walk away. Or you may take the courage and perseverance to (re)build a partnership based on curiosity, authenticity, patience, and trust.
Agile
Bringing Agile Restaurant to France: A Cross-Cultural Workshop Experience
We brought Japan's Agile Restaurant workshop to France. Participants brought dogs, never sat down, and taught us that good service needs boundaries. A cross-cultural adventure in organized chaos.
Leadership
Empowered Teams Don’t Need Your “How” — Just the “What”
Great Agile leadership isn’t about dictating methods — it’s about clarifying purpose and unleashing creativity. Tell your team what needs to be done. Then step back and watch them surprise you.
Scrum
Scrum for Beginners 3-5-3 Part 9: Product Backlog and 3 Pro Patterns for Maintaining it
This is Part 9 of a series on scrum using the 3-5-3 framework (3 roles, 5 events, and 3 outputs) where we use the Scrum Guide as a base for our learning.
Building Organizations
Understanding the ADKAR Model: Engaging Individuals for Successful Organizational Change
The ADKAR model stands for Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement. Let's delve into each component and explore why engaging people on an individual level is crucial for the success of organizational change.
Scrum
Scrum for Beginners 3-5-3 Part 8 The Sprint and 3 Pro Patterns
This is Part 8 of a series on scrum using the 3-5-3 framework (3 roles, 5 events, and 3 outputs) where we use the Scrum Guide as a base for our learning.