Improving Agile Teams: Using Constraints to Unlock Creativity

Improving Agile Teams: Using Constraints to Unlock Creativity is a fun and very useful read by Paul Goddard. He provides insights as to how an improv group works and is structured similarly as an agile team. One of my favorite aspects of the book are the improv activities and how they can be applied to different events of Scrum teams, and how teams can overcome challenges and make improvements. Finally, you need to check out the ideas around story telling and helping teams write user stories that really are the user’s stories.

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Matt Badgley

With a career in Information Technology that has officially reached drinking age, I have one too many hats in roles from Systems Analyst to Programmer to IT Manager to Programmer to Director. I am a seeker of new ideas and learning new things. My passion has been working with product delivery teams to develop into their own identity and simply build valuable solutions by making great software. I have been applying Lean Agile ideas for a long time and leveraging their underlying practices with both a pragmatic and experimental purpose. At the end of the day, I believe in integrity, hard work, trial-and-error, people, and faith.