Books

A (Video) Conversation with Stefan Wolpers About His Scrum Anti-Patterns Book

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Stefan Wolpers about his new book: The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide: Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them. Here’s our conversation:     Stefan’s LinkedIn profile is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanwolpers/ And here is a universal book link for Stefan’s book (all the stores in one link): https://books2read.com/u/mVn8JJ

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Book Birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit

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I am thrilled to announce a book birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit. People often ask me how long it takes me to write a book. Every book takes the time it takes. But this one took much longer than I expected. Here’s the story of the consulting book. In the

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Please Help A Pair Select a Title for a Geographically Distributed Agile Teams Book

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I’ve been a part of geographically distributed teams since the mid-80s. I’ve taught and written about agile distributed teams for several years Now, I’m pair-writing a geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark Kilby. We’ve tweeted a little. We’ll be talking about our process at Agile 2018 in an experience report. We need your help.

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Pairing Improves Writing

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I’m writing a geographically distributed agile team book with Mark Kilby. We have a 30-minute timebox each morning to write. (We take time off for holidays, vacations, travel, etc.) Because we’re writing together, we first had to understand what we wanted to write in this book. We created a frame and a story map for

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Early Release of Agile and Lean Program Management Available

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I have finished integrating comments from the early review of Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization. I decided that the book was good enough to release to the general public. I find it difficult to release books in progress. The in-progress part challenges my perfection rules. However, since this is an

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