Agile Lucero

Agile Coaching Teams by Mario Lucero

Mario Lucero

Mario is an Agile Coach and Scrum Trainer based in Santiago (Chile), who helps organizations deliver high quality software with predictability and happiness. He offers coaching and consulting as well as both public and private classes.
Mario used to work as Software Quality Assurance Lead with extensive experience in work team leadership, continuous integration architecture and automation tools developing high level solutions for companies from Technology, Billing and Financial areas.

Usually, teams that start practicing Kanban begin with simple board layouts while figuring out how to make the most of the method. The beauty of a Kanban board is that it can start simply, then grow in complexity as needed over time. An ordinary beginner’s Kanban board would consist of just 3 columns (To Do, […]

Scrum has an extensive use in project management, but its exclusive use is still not there. From business executives to developers, there is a general expectation from everyone to have understanding how to implement Scrum, but mostly few are clear about its process and thus struggle due to misinformed ideas. This […]

Why a pencil dropped from my hand? There are two answers (or I have got only two responses until now). One if because I dropped the pencil. Second, because the gravity law made it possible. If you choose the first option you admit your responsibility in the fact of dropping. However, if you think it […]

Kanban for me is a great way to use with Portfolios because of that I want to post this article that I found on Kanbanize blog. “This post was originally published on the Kanbanize blog” Have you tried applying Kanban on a large scale in your organization? If you haven’t, you are likely to find […]

Giving and receiving feedback is very tough task so as Agile Coach I always look for different approaches to use with my coachees. Luckily, I found this great article that explains “The COIN model”. This model makes sense for me and I want to share with you. The following paragraphs are extracted from http://hrostoski.com/2011/09/how-to-give-feedback-that-gets-results/ […]

After chatting over Skype with Troy about his awesome project (or maybe their because there are two coaches more involved in the creation) I decided to add a blog with his story about the origin of Lean Agile Intelligence Myself along with Mike Mccalla and James Gifford recently created the industry’s first fully customisable agile […]

An area that has been gaining a lot of attention these couple of years is User Research which is an activity focused on generating insights for product owners and project managers into what drives adoption of a tool or feature. For many of us that have […]

After chatting with Troy over Skype yesterday I decided to add an article about his (or I have to decide their because there are two coaches more involved in the project) wonderful assessment website. Myself along with Mike Mccalla and James Gifford recently created the industry’s first fully customisable agile self-assessment tool called Lean […]

Last weekend I watched a movie with my wife called “The Croods”. Did you watch it? if your response is not you should look at in Youtube and watch it. Even more, if you have kids watch with them too. Based in prehistoric times, The Croods (the family name) survived by two simple and clear […]

I love the idea of improve as Agile and Lean Coach every day because of that I read books, listen podcast and experiment with new activities and dynamics to push people beyond their limits of imagination. To achieve all of these tasks I need “slack” of time that I have for working as freelance. Unfortunately, […]