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TL; DR: Scrum Accountability. Learn more about how Scrum deals with accountability. Here, accountability acts as an enabler for Scrum first principles.). There is no blame game, finger-pointing, or butt-covering in a real Scrum environment.). Scrum First Principles. MORE
TL;DR: Technical Debt & Scrum. If technical debt is the plague of our industry, why isn’t the Scrum Guide addressing the question of who is responsibly dealing with it? Technical Debt & Scrum — The Scrum Guide. First of all, the Scrum Guide does not mention technical debt. MORE
What's the value of (Scrum) certifications? When it comes to Scrum, there are two simply two providers. Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org. For this blog, I'll be focussing on Scrum.org because I'm not fully familiar with Scrum Alliance. Knowing Scrum vs. understanding Scrum. MORE
Through my professional experience, while serving my customers, working with Scrum Teams and training people in Professional Scrum, I have observed that some Scrum Masters only work to serve the Development Team and the Product Owner. MORE
Scrum Mastering is a servant-leadership role. That sure sounds like Scrum Mastering. How does the Scrum Master function as a servant-leader to enable and empower people to do their jobs? Agile Coach (AC): A person who works with the Scrum Team to help them improve their skills. MORE
TL; DR: Solving Impediments as a Scrum Team. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.”. Probably, none of the Scrum Masters or agile coaches of the organization felt competent enough to teach the concept of flow. MORE
At Agilix , we regularly get asked by companies “to discuss some challenges with Scrum”. Let me tell you a bit more how the “flying Scrum doctor” operates…. Besides coaching and writing blogs, I also teach Scrum. MORE
The teams at his company had well established cadences for their Scrum events; well-oiled Daily Scrums that are done within 15 minutes and result in transparency of what the team will do for the next 24-hours. The Scrum Guide is explicit in stating that Scrum is a framework. MORE
This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team. There are many ways micromanagement can show up in a Scrum environment. Attends Daily Scrum to get a status update. MORE
How Scrum Saved the Day. That’s the Scrum way. A very small and very focused Scrum Team came in to get the job done. The Scrum Team used an incremental and iterative approach to: Respond to changes in requirements as they arose. We’ve got Scrum 3.0 MORE
The team used Scrum but the Transparency was lost. I believe we have an answer in the Scrum Framework. It supports the Scrum team to be courageous: Managing the risks by Sprint. . With time-box, Scrum Team has a chance to learn, fail and improve continuously. . "Be MORE
Over the years I've seen numerous Scrum adaptions, and I thought perhaps it would be interesting, to sum up, some of the common misinterpretations of Scrum. As my journey in the realm of scrum continues, I have a hunch that this blog will never be finalized. . To keep it transparent and consistent, I've categorized the topics in the same matter as to how it is in the Scrum Guide. Scrum the abbreviation: It's Scrum, not SCRUM. How does scrum do it? MORE
TL; DR: The Scrum Guide Reordered. The Scrum Guide Reordered is based on about 90 percent of the text of the 2017 Scrum Guide, extending its original structure by adding additional categories. The Origin of the Scrum Guide Reordered. Professional Scrum. MORE
Scrum Master. One of the mandatory Scrum roles. Gather people to the daily Scrum. If you're a Scrum Master reading this right now and think not much of it, it's time to UP your Scrum! Bad Scrum. Summery of the 10 Myths in Scrum - The Liberators. MORE
Multi Products Scrum teams are in reality observed often. The post Multiple products Scrum teams, how do you deal with that? One team serving different stakeholders and customer segments. Both would like to use the same people to work on their improvements. MORE
How do we recognize when the way we’re “doing Scrum“ is impeding our Agility? This can happen even with Scrum, the whole purpose of which is to help deal with reality in Scrum. How do you reawaken Scrum for a Team that knows what it feels like to work together in a natural way? MORE
TL; DR: Scrum Master Engagement Patterns. Last year, I ran a (non-representative) survey on how Scrum Masters are allocating their time when working with a single Scrum Team. The first article of this series will address the Scrum Master engagement with the Development Team. MORE
Scrum has received a lot of negative attention lately. App Dev & Testing, Agile, ScrumThat's well deserved—and long overdue. MORE
How Scrum Saved the Day. That’s the Scrum way. A very small and very focused Scrum Team came in to get the job done. The Scrum Team used an incremental and iterative approach to: Respond to changes in requirements as they arose. We’ve got Scrum 3.0 MORE
TL; DR: Scrum First Principles. Given that its sibling empiricism is an integral part of Scrum as a framework, applying Scrum first principles thinking is also a useful exercise. Scrum First Principles. How can we apply first principles thinking to Scrum? MORE
Although the paper is focused on training in general, my mind made the connection in how Scrum consultants, trainers, and coaches try to have organizations learn Scrum. How organizations expect to succeed with Scrum by hiring consultants, trainers, and coaches. MORE
In my Professional Scrum classes, I always get asked about best practices. It may be about facilitating events, Product Backlog refinement , defining value, forming Scrum Teams, or creating good Sprint Goals. There are no best practices in Scrum. MORE
While teaching and consulting, I’ve had many existing Scrum Masters pull me aside looking tired, frustrated, and worn out. I liken this ‘Scrum Master Fatigue’ to the 1980’s NES game Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out. Scrum Masters cannot give up! MORE
You Are not Doing Scrum. You are not doing Scrum." Scrum Police are a legion. If you are not doing , you are not doing Scrum. It does introduce some sense of a binary Scrum / Not-Scrum state of affairs. You fail because you are not doing Scrum." MORE
Scrum provides numerous opportunities for teams to inspect and adapt their progress, including on a daily basis. What will I do today to take us all closer to the goal, and which I intend to accomplish by the next Daily Scrum? What would their Daily Scrum look like? MORE
Scrum Mastering is a servant-leadership role. That sure sounds like Scrum Mastering. How does the Scrum Master function as a servant-leader to enable and empower people to do their jobs? Agile Coach (AC): A person who works with the Scrum Team to help them improve their skills. MORE
To understand his story and how Scrum supported him, I’ll start at a great and obvious place, the very beginning. Now around this time I had just embarked on a career change after over 20 years in leadership and Operational Management roles and moved into the role of a Scrum Master. MORE
Is your Scrum vocabulary missing the word “leader“? Some people were trained that in Scrum the only acceptable uses of leader refer the Scrum Master’s servant leadership or Dev team members’ situational leadership. The same is true of a Scrum team. MORE
We recently introduced our latest retrospective technique called Scrum Value Pairs , which helps Scrum teams improve areas of their process in regards to the 5 Scrum Values. We have iconized the Scrum Values to support visual learning. MORE
Together with Laurens Bonnema we formed a group who had experienced a lot of bad Scrum, fake Scrum, Scrum […]. The post Celebrating one year of Scrum Boosters! Agile Coach People Scrum scrumHistory In 2014 I started at Xebia in the business unit Agile Consultancy and Training (ACT). Colleague Nicole Belilos took me under her wings and helped me develop and grow within this group of Agile coaches. MORE
2018 was a big year for the Scrum Master with Glassdoor describing the importance of the role and LinkedIn listing Scrum Master as one of the most promising jobs of 2019. Slowly, the Scrum Master has moved out of the world of geek to mainstream acceptance. Scrum On. MORE
Daily Scrum? Daily Scrum is just a chance for the Scrum Master to show up and micromanage. Daily Scrum is for reporting status, but I could do that in an email. People collaboration scrumIt’s a waste of time and interrupts my work. MORE
The Scrum Team consists of three roles. The only three roles needed in Scrum. And if we would practice Scrum within our companies the way described in this first sentence we can all be successful in delivering incremental value to our customers each Sprint. MORE
Scrum is Agile but Agile is not (only) Scrum. The post Is Scrum Agile and is Agile Scrum? Agile IT Scrum2 minutes read (drawing by Alexander) The short version: yes and no! Future Fit Organizations Organizations want to become flexible and Agile or as we like to call it at Xebia: Future Fit. Just like when you go to the gym and want to become […]. appeared first on Xebia Blog. MORE
The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report by scrum.org and the State of Agile 2018 shows numbers that provide insight in the maturity of agile adoptions. More than 80% of the Scrum Masters (respondents) claim their organization is in or below a “still maturing” level. Pre-Scrum waterfall . MORE
As part of the Scrum.org webinar “Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Martin Hinshelwood - Answering Your Most Pressing Scrum Questions” I was asked a number of questions. Question] Are technical skills required to be a Scrum Master? The Scrum Master, Scrum Guide. MORE
Quite a few teams in organizations implementing Scrum depict their frustration in statements like “Scrum is driving us crazy!”, “It’s too chaotic!”, “As if we didn’t have enough meetings, now we have to deal with a ton more!”, “So many metrics we need to improve upon?!?”. MORE
So how do you scale Scrum to the limit? The post Scaling Scrum to the limit appeared first on Xebia Blog. Agile Agile Coach ScrumYou’re likely to have been asked the question: “we need to go faster, how many more people do we need?” Most people naturally understand that just adding a random number of people isn’t likely to make us any faster in the short run. And what are […]. MORE
SCRUM Related Topics Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
TL; DR: Scrum Accountability. Learn more about how Scrum deals with accountability. Here, accountability acts as an enabler for Scrum first principles.). There is no blame game, finger-pointing, or butt-covering in a real Scrum environment.). Scrum First Principles.
Scrum.org
JUNE 20, 2019
En Nexus no se requiere una reunión “Scrum of Scrums” ya que se usa el Nexus Daily Scrum. El Nexus Daily Scrum es un evento del Framework Nexus de Scrum.org que sirve fundamentalmente para gestionar las dependencias entre varios equipos Scrum y analizar el impacto de las mismas.
Scrum.org
JUNE 20, 2019
En Nexus no se requiere una reunión “Scrum of Scrums” ya que se usa el Nexus Daily Scrum. El Nexus Daily Scrum es un evento del Framework Nexus de Scrum.org que sirve fundamentalmente para gestionar las dependencias entre varios equipos Scrum y analizar el impacto de las mismas.
Scrum.org
JULY 24, 2019
TL; DR: The Scrum Guide Reordered. The Scrum Guide Reordered is based on about 90 percent of the text of the 2017 Scrum Guide, extending its original structure by adding additional categories. The Origin of the Scrum Guide Reordered. Professional Scrum.
Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant
To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.
Agile Alliance
JUNE 24, 2019
Daily Scrum? Daily Scrum is just a chance for the Scrum Master to show up and micromanage. Daily Scrum is for reporting status, but I could do that in an email. People collaboration scrumIt’s a waste of time and interrupts my work.
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Scrum.org
OCTOBER 11, 2019
We recently introduced our latest retrospective technique called Scrum Value Pairs , which helps Scrum teams improve areas of their process in regards to the 5 Scrum Values. We have iconized the Scrum Values to support visual learning.
Xebia
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Multi Products Scrum teams are in reality observed often. The post Multiple products Scrum teams, how do you deal with that? One team serving different stakeholders and customer segments. Both would like to use the same people to work on their improvements.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 6, 2019
TL; DR: Scrum First Principles. Given that its sibling empiricism is an integral part of Scrum as a framework, applying Scrum first principles thinking is also a useful exercise. Scrum First Principles. How can we apply first principles thinking to Scrum?
3back
APRIL 3, 2019
How do we recognize when the way we’re “doing Scrum“ is impeding our Agility? This can happen even with Scrum, the whole purpose of which is to help deal with reality in Scrum. How do you reawaken Scrum for a Team that knows what it feels like to work together in a natural way?
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 14, 2019
In my Professional Scrum classes, I always get asked about best practices. It may be about facilitating events, Product Backlog refinement , defining value, forming Scrum Teams, or creating good Sprint Goals. There are no best practices in Scrum.
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Scrum.org
JULY 23, 2019
Scrum provides numerous opportunities for teams to inspect and adapt their progress, including on a daily basis. What will I do today to take us all closer to the goal, and which I intend to accomplish by the next Daily Scrum? What would their Daily Scrum look like?
3back
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
How Scrum Saved the Day. That’s the Scrum way. A very small and very focused Scrum Team came in to get the job done. The Scrum Team used an incremental and iterative approach to: Respond to changes in requirements as they arose. We’ve got Scrum 3.0
Scrum.org
JULY 10, 2019
You Are not Doing Scrum. You are not doing Scrum." Scrum Police are a legion. If you are not doing , you are not doing Scrum. It does introduce some sense of a binary Scrum / Not-Scrum state of affairs. You fail because you are not doing Scrum."
Scrum.org
JULY 16, 2019
Although the paper is focused on training in general, my mind made the connection in how Scrum consultants, trainers, and coaches try to have organizations learn Scrum. How organizations expect to succeed with Scrum by hiring consultants, trainers, and coaches.
Scrum.org
APRIL 10, 2019
The team used Scrum but the Transparency was lost. I believe we have an answer in the Scrum Framework. It supports the Scrum team to be courageous: Managing the risks by Sprint. . With time-box, Scrum Team has a chance to learn, fail and improve continuously. . "Be
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 8, 2019
To understand his story and how Scrum supported him, I’ll start at a great and obvious place, the very beginning. Now around this time I had just embarked on a career change after over 20 years in leadership and Operational Management roles and moved into the role of a Scrum Master.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
TL; DR: Scrum Master Engagement Patterns. Last year, I ran a (non-representative) survey on how Scrum Masters are allocating their time when working with a single Scrum Team. The first article of this series will address the Scrum Master engagement with the Development Team.
Scrum.org
MARCH 4, 2019
The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report by scrum.org and the State of Agile 2018 shows numbers that provide insight in the maturity of agile adoptions. More than 80% of the Scrum Masters (respondents) claim their organization is in or below a “still maturing” level. Pre-Scrum waterfall .
TechBeacon
JUNE 26, 2019
Scrum has received a lot of negative attention lately. App Dev & Testing, Agile, ScrumThat's well deserved—and long overdue.
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Scrum Master. One of the mandatory Scrum roles. Gather people to the daily Scrum. If you're a Scrum Master reading this right now and think not much of it, it's time to UP your Scrum! Bad Scrum. Summery of the 10 Myths in Scrum - The Liberators.
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 15, 2019
While teaching and consulting, I’ve had many existing Scrum Masters pull me aside looking tired, frustrated, and worn out. I liken this ‘Scrum Master Fatigue’ to the 1980’s NES game Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out. Scrum Masters cannot give up!
3back
APRIL 5, 2018
Scrum Mastering is a servant-leadership role. That sure sounds like Scrum Mastering. How does the Scrum Master function as a servant-leader to enable and empower people to do their jobs? Agile Coach (AC): A person who works with the Scrum Team to help them improve their skills.
Scrum.org
MARCH 4, 2019
The Scrum Team consists of three roles. The only three roles needed in Scrum. And if we would practice Scrum within our companies the way described in this first sentence we can all be successful in delivering incremental value to our customers each Sprint.
3back
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
How Scrum Saved the Day. That’s the Scrum way. A very small and very focused Scrum Team came in to get the job done. The Scrum Team used an incremental and iterative approach to: Respond to changes in requirements as they arose. We’ve got Scrum 3.0
Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team. There are many ways micromanagement can show up in a Scrum environment. Attends Daily Scrum to get a status update.
3back
AUGUST 26, 2018
Scrum Mastering is a servant-leadership role. That sure sounds like Scrum Mastering. How does the Scrum Master function as a servant-leader to enable and empower people to do their jobs? Agile Coach (AC): A person who works with the Scrum Team to help them improve their skills.
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 2, 2019
As part of the Scrum.org webinar “Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Martin Hinshelwood - Answering Your Most Pressing Scrum Questions” I was asked a number of questions. Question] Are technical skills required to be a Scrum Master? The Scrum Master, Scrum Guide.
Scrum.org
APRIL 24, 2019
Quite a few teams in organizations implementing Scrum depict their frustration in statements like “Scrum is driving us crazy!”, “It’s too chaotic!”, “As if we didn’t have enough meetings, now we have to deal with a ton more!”, “So many metrics we need to improve upon?!?”.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 29, 2019
2018 was a big year for the Scrum Master with Glassdoor describing the importance of the role and LinkedIn listing Scrum Master as one of the most promising jobs of 2019. Slowly, the Scrum Master has moved out of the world of geek to mainstream acceptance. Scrum On.
Scrum.org
APRIL 28, 2019
At Agilix , we regularly get asked by companies “to discuss some challenges with Scrum”. Let me tell you a bit more how the “flying Scrum doctor” operates…. Besides coaching and writing blogs, I also teach Scrum.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
Over the years I've seen numerous Scrum adaptions, and I thought perhaps it would be interesting, to sum up, some of the common misinterpretations of Scrum. As my journey in the realm of scrum continues, I have a hunch that this blog will never be finalized. . To keep it transparent and consistent, I've categorized the topics in the same matter as to how it is in the Scrum Guide. Scrum the abbreviation: It's Scrum, not SCRUM. How does scrum do it?
3back
JUNE 27, 2019
Is your Scrum vocabulary missing the word “leader“? Some people were trained that in Scrum the only acceptable uses of leader refer the Scrum Master’s servant leadership or Dev team members’ situational leadership. The same is true of a Scrum team.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 19, 2019
TL; DR: Solving Impediments as a Scrum Team. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.”. Probably, none of the Scrum Masters or agile coaches of the organization felt competent enough to teach the concept of flow.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
What's the value of (Scrum) certifications? When it comes to Scrum, there are two simply two providers. Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org. For this blog, I'll be focussing on Scrum.org because I'm not fully familiar with Scrum Alliance. Knowing Scrum vs. understanding Scrum.
Xebia
APRIL 12, 2018
Scrum is Agile but Agile is not (only) Scrum. The post Is Scrum Agile and is Agile Scrum? Agile IT Scrum2 minutes read (drawing by Alexander) The short version: yes and no! Future Fit Organizations Organizations want to become flexible and Agile or as we like to call it at Xebia: Future Fit. Just like when you go to the gym and want to become […]. appeared first on Xebia Blog.
Xebia
DECEMBER 14, 2018
So how do you scale Scrum to the limit? The post Scaling Scrum to the limit appeared first on Xebia Blog. Agile Agile Coach ScrumYou’re likely to have been asked the question: “we need to go faster, how many more people do we need?” Most people naturally understand that just adding a random number of people isn’t likely to make us any faster in the short run. And what are […].
Scrum.org
APRIL 2, 2019
Through my professional experience, while serving my customers, working with Scrum Teams and training people in Professional Scrum, I have observed that some Scrum Masters only work to serve the Development Team and the Product Owner.
Xebia
JANUARY 11, 2019
Together with Laurens Bonnema we formed a group who had experienced a lot of bad Scrum, fake Scrum, Scrum […]. The post Celebrating one year of Scrum Boosters! Agile Coach People Scrum scrumHistory In 2014 I started at Xebia in the business unit Agile Consultancy and Training (ACT). Colleague Nicole Belilos took me under her wings and helped me develop and grow within this group of Agile coaches.
Scrum.org
JUNE 17, 2019
TL;DR: Technical Debt & Scrum. If technical debt is the plague of our industry, why isn’t the Scrum Guide addressing the question of who is responsibly dealing with it? Technical Debt & Scrum — The Scrum Guide. First of all, the Scrum Guide does not mention technical debt.
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