Some weeks ago I met with Todd Galloway, Scrum Master with Square Two Financial. Todd has a passion for helping teams to improve, assessing their health, and helping them get where they need to be. For Todd a lot of fundamentals go into helping teams to deliver value sustainably.

In our discussion we addressed the following:

• The Agile Denver Scrum Master Guild.
• Spotify's Squad Health Check (also known as a Team Health Check).
• Todd's experience with the Team Health Check.
• Coaching questions, lively discussions, and learning.
• His recommended frequency for doing Squad Health Checks.
• The Health Check questions with which his teams struggled most.
• The challenge in motivating teams when a compelling mission is absent.
• How powerful questions can help your teams to improve their creativity and collaboration.
• End of Sprint pressure and problems with Scrum.
• Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban.
• Bottlenecks and the need for greater flow.
• The power in making commitments and setting clear and unifying goals.
• Trust and information biases.
• The importance in discussing the results of the Team Health Check during the same session.
• Assessing team health in low trust environments.
• And much more.

And now welcome to my discussion with Todd Galloway.