Look Forward Blog

In Scrum and Agile, there is not much guidance given on functional and technical documentation.  The Agile Manifesto states that Agile teams value “working software over comprehensive documentation.”  That provides clear guidance on what is the focus of an Agile team,... Read More

Lisbon, Portugal – Learn more about the role of the Product Owner in Scrum and how a Product Owner uses Innovation Games® to create market disruption.  In two weeks time, Carlton Nettleton President and Certified Scrum Trainer for Look Forward Consulting, will be speaking... Read More

Segovia Spain, June 2017 – Look Forward Consulting is happy to announce it is a sponsor of Agile Open Spain 2017, an Open Space conference to be held on June 23 and 24, 2017. The conference will be held at the Campus Maria Zambrano UVA in Segovia, Spain. As an Ope... Read More

San Diego, CA – Carlton Nettleton, President of Look Forward Consulting, is pleased to announce he will be speaking at San Diego Product Managers (Agile or Not), on May 15th, at 6:00PM.  His interactive topic will be “Learning from Product Failure to Achieve New Product... Read More

Look Forward Consulting is pleased to announce its sponsorship of the Agile Portugal 2017 conference, to be held on June 2 and 3, 2017.  Now in its eighth year, the conference is a two-day international event focusing on Agile software development and its practices, technologies,... Read More

     When scaling Scrum and Agile, many software organizations experience the common struggle to coordinate and prioritize the work of multiple teams working together, aka dependency management.  Many factors contribute to the complexity of identifying, tracking, managing and... Read More

Lima, Peru – Look Forward Consulting is pleased to announce that Carlton Nettleton  will be a keynote speaker at Scrum Day Perú, to be held on April 7th and 8th, 2017 in Lima, Perú.  Carlton will open the conference on April 7th with his talk, “Learning from Product Failure... Read More

Stop doing things that demotivate people! Seriously…there are a lot of silly things that people are expected to endure in big companies that are severely demotivating. Almost all of Peopleware is spent identifying how common practices in software management demotivates... Read More

As both a consultant and a trainer, my clients and students frequently want to know more about Scrum and Agile and they are interested to hear different perspectives on what works and what does not work.  Consequently, I often recommend a few books to help people go deeper on the... Read More