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Phil Gardiner a a Certified SAFe Program Consultant Trainer® has recently joined the Applied Frameworks team to lead its Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) consulting practice. Since starting Phil has written an article with 4 Tips for Getting Started with a SAFe Implementation. The...

Every exam comes with a degree of anxiety. Because Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) is the often the start of the Agile educational journey it’s difficult to assess one’s preparedness. You may be asking yourself questions such as: How do I prepare? How long is the exam?...

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...

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...

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...

Valleta, Malta November 13, 2017 – 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?  Of these two questions, one is weak, while the other is much more powerful.  Learn how to tell the...

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,...

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...

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...

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...