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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Customer-centric Net Promoter Scores are equally important, he adds. “To Your leadership team should behave like a Scrum team, enabling end-to-end delivery and support.” He also advises establishing defined service targets and using agile methods to ensure continuous improvements and developing an effective governance improvement plan.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I often hear that you can get people to do Scrum but it won’t last unless they learn to “be” Agile. I suggest Scrum often fails because teams never learned how to do Agile.

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JULY 11, 2018

While it's useful to bring in someone who can actually help with the work, such as a technical or ATDD coach, when it comes to Scrum or Agile coaches it's usually better to grow your own.There are several reasons for this: . If you are kicking off new teams there are two types of coaches you can bring in.

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JULY 7, 2018

Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts and rules are immutable. Ironically, immutability is as non-Agile as one can be – so why is this? Scrum pre-defines the “right” thing & says keep working on until you do it correctly. Of course, you won’t be doing Scrum anymore. Not understanding what to build is even worse.

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AUGUST 4, 2018

People often conflate Scrum with Agile. But Scrum is not the same as Agile. Agile's considered by many to be a set of values, principles and way of being. Scrum is a framework consisting of roles, rules, artifacts and events. XP is quite different.

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

Proponents of Scrum often put the responsibility for failed adoptions of Scrum at the feet of management who don’t want to change. While I believe this is true some of the time, I believe the challenge is that Agile adoptions based on Scrum often don’t attend to management’s needs.

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JUNE 22, 2018

Writing a page on "How to Adopt Scrum" reminded me that the CSM course started around '02 because Ken wanted to help those of us who already knew Scrum to be better coaches. But it didn't teach me scrum. I already knew Scrum & reading Ken's book was a pre-requisite for the course. . .

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MAY 8, 2019

Originally published October 20, 2017 Context / Intent for Article I have seen the Agile movement grow from when we new a fraction of what we have now and didn’t have a name for the overall approach. XP and Scrum were gaining ground. Continue reading "The Lean-Agile Manifesto".

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DECEMBER 15, 2018

The Scrum Guide tells us “Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts, and rules are immutable” This presumes people need this structure and can’t think on their own without it. Why “Scrum-ish” is better than Scrum".

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APRIL 20, 2019

Now that the three Scrum bodies are offering Kanban you might think the Agile wars are over and it’s a good thing. Few look for what is common, underneath Scrum … Continue reading "How the Certifying Bodies Are Impeding Agile". But just the opposite is true. Their focus is still on the certs.

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JUNE 3, 2021

by the Scrum Inc. is not clear (or worse yet, a net negative), it’s likely time to either downsize and move to a hybrid model or consider remaining fully remote. . Colocation has long been a mantra in the Agile and Scrum communities. But consider the updated 2020 Scrum Guide. Team | June 3 , 2021 | Blog.

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DECEMBER 2, 2018

Many proponents of Scrum based frameworks say: knowledge workers are people who know more than their managers we must trust & respect people people must self-organize But then their courses go on to tell people what to do. … Continue reading "The contradictions in many Scrum-based Framework Training (Scrum, SAFe, …)". .

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JANUARY 16, 2019

Looking at differences between Scrum and Kanban can help us see which will work better for us. 1) Scrum requires planning the sprint ahead. 2) Scrum requires cross-functional teams, a good thing to have. Kanban doesn’t but this often misses the opportunity … Continue reading "The Differences Between Scrum and Kanban".

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

I’ve written recent posts about stoping the binary thinking & a Manifesto for Agile Learning. If you’re an SM you may have the concepts of Scrum & Agile down, but may not have what you need regarding Kanban. The key point of both is that breadth is more important than depth.

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MARCH 31, 2019

There is a division in the agile community about whether one should rely on people or focus on people supported by systemic thinking (no one I know of suggests systems alone are enough). Continue reading "Smart People, XP and Scrum – Is there a pattern?" This blog was originally written January 2010.There

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MARCH 30, 2019

I have repeatedly heard that “Scrum succeeds largely because the people doing the work define how to do the work” (see From The Top by Ken Schwaber for his full text). However, I do not … Continue reading "Challenging why (not if) Scrum works". I have left the # of years the same to keep context.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Scrum was inspired by the article “The New New Product Development Game” (’86). Several characteristics of successful development included: Teams work best when they work autonomously … Continue reading "The True Intention of Scrum". It introduced a new way to develop new products.

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APRIL 1, 2019

This was originally published May, 2017 Note: This blog assumes the reader understands the basic roles and practices of Scrum.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Scrum presumes it is effective to give all teams a simple preset, immutable framework that each team must follow until they figure out how to manifest it. Scrum is designed for and requires cross-functional teams doing work that is plannable.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I’m guessing most people are expecting me to talk about making a decision on whether to use Scrum or Kanban. The first thing when starting Agile at the team is to ask “what’s in my way of creating and delivering value?” But I don’t believe that’s the biggest decision to make.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

I keep running across organizations with 4-10 dev teams struggling with Agile. They look to the two most popular frameworks out there for a solution (Scrum & SAFe) to solve their problems. On the other … Continue reading "A Simple Solution to Agile at Small-Scale".

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Focus on Scrum. Daily Scrums provide an opportunity to pivot each day. This is the common way certified … Continue reading "Three ways to get trained in Scrum". This is the common way certified … Continue reading "Three ways to get trained in Scrum". Use its practices, events and artifacts to drive teams to improve.

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JANUARY 20, 2019

Scrum is based on empirical process control. Scrum is accordingly set up with a set of rules, roles, artifacts and events designed in such a way that if they are followed good results will happen. … Continue reading "The Insidious Side of Scrum and How I’d Fix It (and yes, I know it wouldn’t be Scrum anymore)". .

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Recently, Scrum.org announced the integration of Kanban practices into Scrum and that “Observe Orient Decide Act (OODA) is the mindset of Scrum. This comes on top of the announcement of Scrum team training a few years ago. These are all good things.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This post continues my series on getting back to the original Scrum I posted a few days ago. I believe these core roles, practices, events and rules are the core … Continue reading "How Scrum’s core is useful and incorporates the essence of Agile".

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AUGUST 5, 2018

I was asked if Scrum per the Scrum Guide was an instance of Kanban. Scrum (per SG) has immutable roles, artifacts, events, and rules. There are other differences in the mindsets of Scrum and Kanban. . There are other differences in the mindsets of Scrum and Kanban. . CEO, Net Objectives. . Al Shalloway.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

As many people know, we’ve been on the front edge of XP, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, technical Agile and more. We, of course, do assessments and Lean-Agile Transformations.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

As many people know, we’ve been on the front edge of XP, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, technical Agile and more. We, of course, do assessments and Lean-Agile Transformations.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

On twitter someone suggested this is why I have so much energy on Scrum. Scrum is great and can really help teams. The common focus on the framework anticipating people will figure out what they have to do … Continue reading "No, Scrum did not back its car over my dog". Here was my response.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

1) management tells teams to do Scrum 2) they try but can’t. A common challenge is they don’t know how to break down big epics into small stories (which is often not taught in initial scrum training) 3) at some point they give up and do ScrumBut by not following sprints.

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JUNE 22, 2018

Provide an online, support system that includes both courses and reference materials so the Scrum team can continue learning over time as needed. Provide Scrum teams a way to create small, well-defined stories. Ensure Scrum is applicable to the situation. Management must be learn their role in the adoption of Scrum and Agile.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

This is a continuation of my prior post – Using Cost of Delay to Improve Scrum The challenges teams new to Scrum face are fairly common: Not finishing many stories at the end of a sprint because they opened up too many Lack of tested stories at the end of a sprint Doing an analysis … Continue reading "Common Errors Understanding Cost of Delay Avoids (..)

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

From the moment Scrum became more popular than XP, the sw dev community has been focusing on frameworks more than Lean-Agile principles. Lean-Agile principles are, by their very nature, abstract. Not to follow a framework, but to enable better decisions based on Lean-Agile principles. This is the purpose of a good tool.

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JULY 13, 2019

Co-written by Jim Sutton and Al Shalloway Abstract: This blog suggests that instead of looking at whether we should choose between Scrum and Kanban, we can see Scrum and Kanban as process patterns and benefit from the best of both. You’re Asking the Wrong Question".

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JULY 20, 2018

I founded Net Objectives almost 20 yrs ago. Especially in the area of growing Scrum Masters or Agile Team Coaches. This content is missing from most Agile trainings in my mind. If you have hundreds of Scrum Masters or other Agile coaches & need an effective way to grow them, please contact me.

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JULY 7, 2019

While Agile has made a definite improvement in the world since it started 2 decades ago, it is hard to argue that it hasn’t stagnated. We hear about dark Scrum and fake Agile almost as much as the real thing.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

Given I’ve written 5 books, delivered 100s of courses/talks/ webinars, influenced Scrum, Kanban & SAFe, that’s a big statement.

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