Okay… so what if my value stream isn’t encapsulated within a single Scrum team? What do I do then? To some degree, I think it depends on how much of the value stream is outside the team. If external dependencies are the exception rather than the n…
In the midst of all the methodology wrangling… I’ve always felt that there is a time and a place for Vanilla Scrum. The problem is that most of the time, folks are giving vanilla Scrum a try when Vanilla Scrum just isn’t a very good fit for their or…
Have you ever been in a class or training session which is so boring you felt like you might fall asleep? Or maybe you are one of the people that DID fall asleep! I know I’ve been there many times. When I started facilitating sessions on agile and Scrum I knew I couldn’t do it [...]
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Okay… way too big a gap between meaningful blog posts. Since it has been so long, you might want to go back and take a look at the first post in this series called “Getting Started with Agile… One of Five”. There is a bit of irony here around how…
you would have had an absolutely indescribably fantastic time! And that’s just for starters. To be honest, the phrase “that was so much fun it must have been a sin” comes to mind. I had fun every minute I was there. Here’s a short VERY LONG recap of what I can recall now (a week [...]
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In about 5 minutes I’m going to play the role of being a “doctor” at the Scrum Clinic which is part of the Orlando Scrum Gathering. It’s an interesting concept. A doctor and a patient meet to discuss a topic important to the patient. In my case the patient wants to talk about the Scrum [...]
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My friend, Arif Gangji, and I created this video to help his customers understand why his company uses Scrum as their software development framework. I decided I really liked the video, so I’m posting it here as well. It isn’t perfect, but it is plenty good enough to get across the basic ideas of Scrum. Over [...]
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Cory Foy does a great job giving us some insight into the recent history of the Scrum Alliance, especially as it relates to current efforts around developer certification. He also does a great job getting to the nut of the issue we are talking about he…
I have to say, I’ve been a little surprised by some of the responses to my last post on Scrum Certification. For the record, I’d like to restate my position as simply and with as few words as I possibly can:1. Scrum is a simple framework for empirical…
At the risk of being accused of bashing Scrum for the second time this week, I want to talk a little about the Product Owner role. What I want to explore a bit is why the Product Owner is such an important construct in Scrum… and furthermore, why it…