Look Forward Blog

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

Yesterday’s Weather is an Extreme Programming planning technique used to estimate the capacity of a Team based on their past performance. Yesterday’s Weather is a guide to help Teams neither under commit nor overcommit to a set of Product Backlog items during Sprint... Read More

Entonces, ¿Cómo funciona realmente un pivote? En mi último artículo, hablé sobre los diez tipos de pivotes del mundo de Lean Startup. Permíteme ilustrarte cómo funcionan los pivotes con CSP Fast Pass, mi proyecto más reciente para ayudar a personas y negocios a ser más exitosos... Read More

In Scrum, the owner of the estimates is very clear.  Only the people who do the work, i.e., the Team, have the right to offer estimates for the Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog items.  However, like many things in Scrum, the framework leaves it up to each Team to decide on what... Read More

Nov 14th, 2016 San Diego, CA – Do you use questions to help people find their path?  Or how might questions spark a dialogue on what is really important from a team?  In the preceding example, one the questions was weak while the other was much more powerful.  Learn how to... Read More

Scrum ha sido una gran decepción, un experimento fallido que no ha llegado ni de cerca al impacto positivo que la administración estaba esperando. No es la cita más edificante, pero Geoff Watts (@geoffcwatts) comienza su libro, Scrum Mastery: From Good to Great Servant... Read More

Here are the three most common mistakes (in no particular order) that I see with my clients who are struggling to implement and sustain long-term Agile adoption. Weak Product Owners – without a Product Owner (PO), Scrum does not work.  Thankfully, most of my clients have... Read More

Munich, Germany – Carlton Nettleton, President of Look Forward Consulting, and Jason Tanner, CEO of Applied Frameworks, were quite busy last month at the Munich Global Scrum Gatherin.  On Wednesday, Oct 19th they presented two, ninety-minute workshops on topics of interest... Read More

No … siempre que el equipo cumpla las tres condiciones que se enumeran a continuación, un ScrumMaster a tiempo completo es probablemente innecesario. El equipo está aprendiendo de sus errores y está perfeccionando su rendimiento a medida que avanzan. El equipo está... Read More