The Scrum Master role in the words of the Scrum Guide itself 2020… condensed.
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Mega-Marbles Christmas Edition [video]
Mega-Marbles Christmas Edition – a game to make and playHere’s a fun and festive game I invented with my kids…
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Agile-ometer [video]
The Agile-ometer is a simple, visual tool to help us zoom out and rapidly reflect on the level of agility…
MUSIC: Clean Strat Jams 2020
I recently rediscovered the joys of the pure sounds of a clean (most of the time) Fender Stratocaster, played with…
How Agile are you? Meet the Agile-ometer
Let’s begin with a couple of questions: Q. How agile are you now? Q. How agile do you want to…
Without words – visual Agile Manifesto Values
Say no more…. the image above should speak for itself if you are familiar with the Agile Manifesto. Having said…
MUSIC: Cupidiot (Acoustic EP)
rob-aston · Cupidiot
Next Positive Action for anxiety reduction
This SELF DIMENSION Zoom-Out emerged from a juncture of my passion for personal productivity and personal wellbeing. It combines elements…
Example SAFe Team Board in Miro
Miro, formerly Realtime Board, is hands down the best online collaboration tool I have come across. I’ve been using it…
How to find gratitude for what you have in any situation
As the title of this Zoom-Out says, things could be infinitely worse. You could not be here at all or…
Karl Marx’s Epitaph as a call to act as well as see
This morning was a fresh and sunny end of March day and I am privileged enough to live very close…
How to embrace change rather than resist it
One way to think about time is in relation to change. In fact, time and change are inseparable — the two are…
MUSIC: Cheyne & Rob Jams – Best Of
rob-aston · Cheyne & Rob Jams – Best Of
Zin & Zoot Evolved
Zin and Zoot are our friends from Planet Zoom. Or put another way, visual metaphors with anthropomorphic features that represent…
Right View
In Zoomology and as Zoomologists we speak of finding the most helpful perspective. Of seeking out the most helpful perspective in…
The Mysterious Case of Free Will
The Mysterious Case of Free Will Free will has endured a long run of, well, freedom. Could that time be…
A wise monk’s powerful and simple formula for happiness
Do you have a formula for happiness? Last night someone suggested one to myself and around 500 other people. The…
Einstein’s profoundly useful insight on reality versus experience
One of the things I really enjoy about exploring and researching Zoom-Out is how it crosses multiple schools of thought…
SLEEP WELL
It’s well established and well documented that one of the key wellbeing and performance boosting activities is… Sleep zzzzzzz It’s…
Happy Easter
Happy Easter from the Zoom-Out team! We hope you and your family have a wonderful break! It doesn’t look like we will…
Read Obituaries
When I was young and living at home with my parents, we had the local newspaper delivered every day. I…
Steve Jobs as Zoomologist
Steve jobs as Zoomologist… Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help…
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Attention Bubble [Tool]
UNFINISHED Life often demands that we give our attention to unpleasant things. Like smoke that contaminates the air we breathe,…
Dead Cactus
Metaphors help us to make sense of the world. Metaphors are also useful thinking and communication tools which we can…
Martian Postcard
A writer friend of mine recently gave me a sheet of A4 paper and said, “Here, read this martian poem”. …
Pale Blue Dot
The greatest selfie ever taken? From a Zoom-Out perspective, certainly. Also the greatest distance – you’d need a very long…
The Blue Marble
This image literally caused the whole world to Zoom-Out. The Blue Marble is an image of the Earth made on…