Look Forward Blog

The Product Owner on my team is also a developer on the team. Do you have any advice on using Scrum in such a scenario? SHORT ANSWER:  Yeah – stop doing it! LONG ANSWER:  In a healthy Scrum Team, each person fills only one Scrum role at a time.  Having someone be both a... Read More

February 2018 Lisbon, PT – Great news for people who want more from their user stories and for people looking to have more fun at work with Serious Games.  Carlton Nettleton will be taking his insights, ideas and Story Cubes® to help Scrum practitioners, Product Owners and... Read More

Happy 2018!!!  It’s difficult to believe 2017 is already over!  Since I had a little free time, I looked back at 2017 to see which of my blog posts, out of all my blog posts, were the most popular last year.  here are the results: Fourteen Scrum Case Studies – this is... Read More

Lisbon, Portugal (January 2018) – Carlton Nettleton, Certified Scrum Trainer® and President of Look Forward Consulting, is pleased to announce he will be speaking at the Agile Connect Porto meet-up on January 31, 2018 at 6:45 p.m.  His interactive topic will be “Learning... Read More

Santiago, Chile (January 2018) – Look Forward Consulting, Inc. and Kleer are partnering to bring Scrum Alliance® Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) Carlton Nettleton to Chile this coming February.  Carlton will teach a Certified Scrum Product Owner® class in Santiago, Chile, on... Read More

How do you cope with the weak Product Owner? You don’t – find a new Product Owner (PO) or stop using Scrum.  Scrum is based on the idea that an empowered, knowledgable business leader is setting direction for the product (or service) under development.  When that... Read More

Quito, Ecuador (December 2017) – Look Forward Consulting, Inc. and Jaguar Agile Coaching are partnering to bring Scrum Alliance® Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) Carlton Nettleton to Ecuador this coming February.  Carlton will teach a Certified ScrumMaster® course in... Read More

Quito, Ecuador (Diciembre 2017) – Look Forward Consulting, Inc y Jaguar Agile Coaching estamos trabajando juntos para organizar una visita por Carlton Nettleton, Scrum Alliance® Instructor Certificado de Scrum (Certified Scrum Trainer® CST), a Ecuador en febrero.  Carlton... Read More

The Product Backlog: It’s that ordered list of everything known to be needed in the product.  Ordering means prioritization, and the Scrum Alliance ® Collaboration at Scale webinar series will be hosting Carlton Nettleton, CST® and president of Look Forward Consulting, and Luke... Read More