I am currently participating in the Tribal Leadership Intensive classes offered by CultureSync. It is a fun and demanding experience and to help myself process and digest all the information from the class, I started blogging about it. Click the button below to read through my Tribal Leadership Blog.
Read my Tribal Leadership BlogWelcome to the new Surdek Solutions website! I worked on this project part-time for the last few months and I am very happy to finally have it online! What should you expect from me moving forward? To learn more about the new website, please read on!
Read the Full StoryAs part of the promotion for “A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum”, I co-wrote an article last month with Elizabeth Woodward for AgileJournal.com. We wrote about how to create, prioritize, size and groom the product backlog with distributed teams.
Read the Full StoryThe TD Developer Network community was looking for a guest speaker for their annual event to deliver a talk to give the developers an introduction to Agile. My director recommended they get in touch with me and the next thing I knew; they invited to be the featured speaker at their annual event held in three different locations. To learn more about my TDDN adventures please read on…
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The first comprehensive, practical guide for Scrum practitioners working in large-scale distributed environments co-authored by Steffan Surdek is now available!
Interested in hearing clips from some of Steffan's talks? This is the place to visit...
In this area you will find a mix of live clips and some clips recorded just for the site!
Exceptionally, the following blog post is in French.
Exceptionnellement, je vais écrire un article en français pour saluer les élèves pour qui j’ai présenté à l’école secondaire Jean Grou à Montréal. Dans mon style habituel, vous désirez savoir comment j’ai trouvé ma journée? Il va falloir que vous suiviez ce lien pour en savoir plus!
I am blogging less on the Tribal Leadership class these days, not due to lack of interest but because I am currently in that odd period between two jobs. The situation is making it more challenging for me to use what I am currently learning in a work context. Our triad identified our project for the course and I am looking forward to sharing the details with you. To learn more about it, you need to read on!
Tonight was the second class for Tribal Leadership Intensive Two and it was one of those classes centered mainly on discussions of various topics. Gracious collaboration was one topic and strong versus weak links was the other. As we broke out of the triad discussion on collaboration, I realized I had more to share. To learn my thoughts on tonight’s class, please read on.
The first Tribal Leadership Intensive Two course was last week and I am completing week one! What do you do when homework creeps you out? You push through it and ignore the feeling! I have a bunch of various thoughts on the last week and if you want to know more, please read on!
The biggest challenge many teams new to Scrum face is to understand when they are over-committing themselves during the sprint planning meeting. Before doing any sprint planning, the first thing teams should do is identify their sprint capacity, which is the number of hours they are available to work on backlog items during the sprint.
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Steffan Surdek is an Agile Coach in Montreal. In his previous life, he coached distributed teams at IBM, facilitated two day disciplined agile workshops and was one of the co-leads of the Agile Community. Steffan speaks at various conferences and user groups about using agile practices with distributed teams. |
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