When working with Scrum teams, getting your Refinement process right is key. I just finished reading ‘When’ by Daniel Pink (the author of Drive etc). It’s a great book and I can recommend it to anyone interested in improving your personal effectiveness or in human...

I am always trying to improve my course material and the way I explain things. I wanted to create a short explainer video on refinement for a while already. Recently I finally got around to doing it. 🙂 Apart from using as training material, I wanted to share it...

I consider Retrospectives a key part of Scrum. Without it, the team would not be able to inspect and adapt it’s proces and work environment. As a consequence, I think putting (a lot of) effort into the preparation of your Retrospective is always worth it. I am always...

What is an Agile Architect? The role of architects in an Agile organisation has been a topic of debate for a long time now. What is 'Agile Architecture'? The Scrum Guide only provides information about the Scrum team itself. Different Agile Scaling mythologies offer...

There seems to be a big misunderstanding about the role of the Scrum Master going around in the Agile community. The phrasing people use differs a bit, but it always comes down to this: "When you start a Scrum team, you need a Scrum Master, but after the team becomes...

You can find the slides from today's webinar on Slideshare: What i learned from doing two big Agile transitions in the Netherlands from Jasper Verdooren Enjoy, Jasper  

Together with Unicom we are organising our first webinar! The title is: What I learned from two big Agile transitions in NL. It will take place on the 27th of January 2017 at 13:00 CET. Attendance is free of course. You can sign up here.

I get a lot of questions about training and certification, so I decided to write a blog post giving an overview on what is there (plus some advice on what I personally think is useful).   Scrum Master certification The most common and most widely recognised...