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Scrum Mastery: 5 Steps to Improve Team Process

Stephanie Ockerman

This is the second in a series of posts exploring Scrum Mastery. In our first post, we introduced the 4 dimensions of Scrum Mastery. How [...]

4 Dimensions for Scrum Mastery

Stephanie Ockerman

I often end my Scrum training classes with this quote from Ken Schwaber, "Scrum takes two days to learn and a lifetime to master.” So [...]

What Are You and Your Team Avoiding?

Stephanie Ockerman

What we avoid runs our lives. Think of it like an app running in the background. Over time, avoidance drains our battery. What we avoid [...]

7 Big Ideas from Business Agility 2018

Stephanie Ockerman

This was my second year as a facilitator at the Business Agility Conference in New York City, and it was even more impactful than last [...]

5 Powerful Things About the Sprint

Stephanie Ockerman

The Sprint is one of the five Scrum events. In my Professional Scrum Courses, this is the event that people often forget about because it [...]

How to Build Trust to Enable Agility

Stephanie Ockerman

How do you build trust? This is one of the most common questions I get working with individuals, teams, and organizations. In this post, I [...]

Agility is Resilience

Stephanie Ockerman

I recently came across a definition of resilience that moved me. "The ability to transform hardship to experience." That is what agility is truly about. [...]

Emotional Agility

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I recently heard the term "emotional agility" on a meditation app, and it really resonated. So I wanted to riff on this concept from the [...]

Coaching Secret: Stop giving context

Stephanie Ockerman

We have been taught by corporate culture to talk more. We have to talk more to justify or explain our opinions and decisions. We have [...]

Coaching Secret: Don’t Coach Someone Not in the Room

Stephanie Ockerman

In coaching conversations, people often bring up challenges or issues they have with co-workers. We can empathize. We have likely experienced a similar challenge. So [...]

Coaching Secret: Follow the aliveness

Stephanie Ockerman

We worry if we are asking the right question. We worry about saying the right thing. We overthink it. We get stuck in our head. [...]

The Power of Coaching

Stephanie Ockerman

We talk about coaching a lot in the agile world. However, what we are actually expected to do is not usually about coaching. So we [...]

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Scrum Mastery: 5 Steps to Improve Team Process

4 Dimensions for Scrum Mastery

What Are You and Your Team Avoiding?

7 Big Ideas from Business Agility 2018

5 Powerful Things About the Sprint

How to Build Trust to Enable Agility

Agility is Resilience

Emotional Agility

Coaching Secret: Stop giving context

Coaching Secret: Don’t Coach Someone Not in the Room

Coaching Secret: Follow the aliveness

The Power of Coaching

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