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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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JULY 7, 2018

Scrum pre-defines the “right” thing & says keep working on until you do it correctly. Scrum can be improved by simply adding “Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts, &rules can only be changed if the resulting change has the same intent of the original” to the Scrum Guide. Of course, you won’t be doing Scrum anymore.

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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: . it is harder to learn your own environment and product that it is to learn the essential understandings of Scrum.

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Net Objectives

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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MARCH 11, 2022

Our PM and UX teams also conduct workshops, as we typically work with net-new project types and things that we haven’t done before. Around 50% of our clients are non-technical founders starting a net-new project, which means Intent acts as a “think partner”, or, in effect, a CTO for their project.

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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.” Decisions, he advises, should focus on optimizing IT services in general and not only concentrate on locally optimized decisions.

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Net Objectives

JULY 25, 2019

At a minimum, anytime a request is made the question “how will I know I’ve done that” should be asked An understanding that delays in feedback, … Continue reading "Scrum for Software Development". In this one I’ll describe some principles and practices that should be in it Use some degree of test-first.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

First of all, I like Scrum. This means initial training of Scrum should include more of the flow model (eliminating … Continue reading "What I Think About Scrum". I think it can be a great framework when used in the right place. But I also think it must be taught as a tool in your toolbox, not an end in and of itself.

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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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MARCH 12, 2019

Here are some things I have learned from Scrum. Small batches are good and … Continue reading "What I have Learned from Scrum". Small batches are good and … Continue reading "What I have Learned from Scrum". Cross functional teams are good. And they improve innovation by the team.

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Net Objectives

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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Net Objectives

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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Net Objectives

MARCH 31, 2019

This was originally published in May 2009 Virtually 2 years ago I wrote a blog called Challenging Why (not if) Scrum Works. Basically, I was looking to see why Scrum worked so I would be able to best take advantage of Scrum.

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Net Objectives

JULY 24, 2019

Scrum proponents take pride in the fact that Scrum can work anywhere, in any domain. The result of this is often that people have to reinvent things and don’t have ready access to concepts that would guide their … Continue reading "Why we need a Scrum for Software Development Teams".

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Net Objectives

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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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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Net Objectives

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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Net Objectives

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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Net Objectives

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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FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Scrum is based on empirical process control, the pillars of which are transparency, inspection & adaptation. It’s just that when we do use theory we must verify it … Continue reading "Improve Your Scrum by Using Flow Thinking". This mostly means that instead of following a plan we observe how things are going & adjust accordingly.

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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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SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Scrum org defines “ScrumBut” as “that Scrum has exposed a dysfunction that is contributing to the problem, but is too hard to fix. A ScrumBut retains the problem while modifying Scrum to make it invisible so that the dysfunction is no longer a thorn in the side of the team.” What is ScrumBut?

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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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Net Objectives

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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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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APRIL 6, 2019

It’s nice to see the Scrum community finally accepting the importance of Lean and Kanban. But putting Lean/Kanban practices into Scrum does not make Scrum the same as Lean. In Scrum our attention is “how do … Continue reading "Putting Lean-Kanban practices into Scrum is not the same as being Lean".

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AUGUST 4, 2018

People often conflate Scrum with Agile. But Scrum is not the same as Agile. Scrum is a framework consisting of roles, rules, artifacts and events. It has many of the practices that those in the Scrum community suggest be incorporated into Scrum. XP is quite different.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Scrum is a lightweight framework that encourages correct action through performing its ceremonies and practices. Consider the “sprint” in Scrum. According to the Scrum Guide, “The heart of Scrum is a Sprint, a time-box of … Continue reading "Why Being Explicit in Workflow is Useful: Case Study, Scrum Based on Lean Flow".

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 7, 2019

Scrum and Kanban are the two most popular Agile team level methods available. They … Continue reading "Why Agile Coaches Need to Know Both Scrum and Kanban" They … Continue reading "Why Agile Coaches Need to Know Both Scrum and Kanban"

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MARCH 31, 2019

This was originally posted in August 2012 Abstract We hear that Scrum works because it allows teams to self-organize. I believe, however, that Scrum works because it mandates a method that manages queues implicitly.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Inspect (Where we are) Years ago Ken Schwaber observed that only about 25% of organizations got what they wanted from their teams adopting Scrum. Our tools … Continue reading "Why We Need to Inspect and Adapt How We Do Scrum Training". I would guess that number hasn’t changed much since then.

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 30, 2019

This jewel of advice not only tunes us in to what’s important, but it can guide … Continue reading "Using Cost of Delay to Improve Scrum". If you only quantify one thing, quantify the Cost of Delay” – Don Reinertsen Cost of delay is the overall cost of loss in revenue, lost opportunity, increased risks, customer respect, etc.,

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JULY 27, 2020

Scrum Metrics: Widely used metrics that focus on the effective delivery of the working software to the clients. Release Net Promoter Score: Also called as NPS, Net Promoter Score helps to measure customer satisfaction while also predicting the business growth. References: Scrum Institute, Kanbanize. Eg: Burndown Chart.

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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. If the R.O.I.

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Net Objectives

MARCH 31, 2019

This was originally published in October 2009 In this blog I discuss the need to get to the root cause of why so many teams are not having success with Scrum.

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MARCH 31, 2019

Continue reading "Smart People, XP and Scrum – Is there a pattern?" This blog was originally written January 2010.There 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).

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JANUARY 9, 2019

A demonstration … Continue reading "The Magic of Scrum, The Magic of Kanban – Why You Need Both". Every two weeks they get together to decide what they are going to do over the next sprint, and then they proceed to do it. Daily retros keep them on track. Guided by a product owner the team incrementally builds their product increment.

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