scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

What Happens to Managers in Scrum? . This post is part of our new ScrumCast series of conversations with thought leaders who have successfully helped transform organizations and empower teams and individuals. Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

A good time was had by all at Scrum Day India 2020. A recent Forbes survey indicated to me that about 47% of Agile Transformations fail and 77% of Agile Transformations are Scrum transformations so most of the failures are due to bad Scrum. Why Scrum Works - Decision Latency. was well received. Successful.

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Gorilla Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“ My Scrum Master scheduled all these meetings, but they are taking time away from my actual work!”. I’ve seen some people struggle with the amount of meetings that revolve around an Agile implementation, but these spaces where the team members come together are priceless. Scrum ceremonies are where the magic happens!

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Xebia

MARCH 19, 2024

Are you a developer who has to put up with a bitter manager? A Scrum Master struggling to survive under the tyranny of micromanagement? A Product Owner who feels like they’re being sucked dry by an overbearing Agile coach? Or maybe a manager, leader, or coach who wants to understand how to support their team better?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If your Sprints are merely about ticking off items on a scattered work list without having a shared understanding of why they’re important or what purpose they serve, your Development Team will struggle to keep focus in the short-term and will take longer to become highly effective in the long run. Why Do We Have Sprint Goals?

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Evolution4all

MARCH 15, 2023

Agile Transformation Executed Only On the Team Level Most organizations make this mistake. They believe that Agile transformation means simply implementing Agile only on the team level. And more importantly, you are ready to change the organization as a whole, not only the development teams.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Make the investments and ignore the practices, and your teams are still likely to improve.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Experienced Agile coaches and consultants have regularly observed that the greatest impediment to transforming organizations is transforming the mindsets of its members. It is easy to train Agile practices such as Scrum and get people started working in teams. So that is what a lot of folks do, they do the easy stuff.

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scruminc

AUGUST 25, 2021

Should I Be A Scrum Master? 6 Questions To Determine If This Scrum Role Is Right For You. Expertly trained Scrum Masters are in high demand. Effective Scrum Masters are critical for the success of any Agile organization. percent increase in demand for Scrum Masters over the next ten years. .

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Scale: Team and/or across multiple teams. People new to Scrum often struggle to understand boundaries of control between being an effective manager, ScrumMaster, or Product Owner. 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.

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Gorilla Logic

JULY 28, 2020

When working through an Agile transformation, many organizations struggle to efficiently re-organize delivery teams. Although you won’t find specific mention in the Agile Manifesto or the 12 Principles , most Agile frameworks (such as Scrum and XP) note that Agile teams should strive to be cross-functional. Delayed feedback.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

They hire Agile Coaches or Scrum Masters to implement scrum or any other agile flavour in their teams, but they stop there. I have had the opportunity to work with many different teams and I discovered that many worked without a common vision or strategy. Strategic Prioritisation. Connection to the Big Picture.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Many people who attend Scrum training courses start with the impression that the Daily Scrum is the whole of Scrum. Others think the Daily Scrum centres on three questions (this was true a long time ago). This guide to the Daily Scrum meeting was created to address these misconceptions as well as answer common questions.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Do you want to be successful like them in implementing processes and empowering your team ? This may feel a little uncomfortable for you if you an open line of communication between you and your subordinates hasn’t been opened or has been weak for the longest time. This also promotes collaboration among your team members.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It aligns team efforts so that everyone is working on the same goal. CEOs would have broader objectives as their roles encompass many aspects of the organisation while teams and business units may have a more limited scope when setting objectives as theirs would depend mainly on the department or management team that they support.

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Codegiant

MAY 3, 2020

Kanban vs Scrum?—?Every Every Difference Your Team Needs To Know [2020] Scrum is the most popular Agile framework today ( 56% of all Agile teams use Scrum ). But is it the most effective one, particularly for your team? Or is Kanban, one of the trending agile frameworks today , a better fit for your team?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 2, 2020

Is your team running so smoothly that it hums? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

From a team of 30 people to now a giant tech corporation with over 70,000 employees, Google is one of the hallmarks of OKR as an organisational goal-setting methodology. The company used to adopt the “rank and yank” system wherein managers had to identify their least productive team members through a yearly evaluation. Take The Test.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Bas co-created Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) with Craig Larman. Bas and Craig’s book, Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS , is well worth reading. Discussion prompts: The book discusses scaling organizational capability as well as scaling product teams. Team-level coaching capabililty is an important part of scaling agility.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 5, 2019

When Wenger (1998) made further studies on this concept, he made it clear how communities of practice can help nurture knowledge, stimulate innovation, and develop social capital. Fast forward to the present, CoPs have become a generally accepted principle of organisational learning and development. ORGANISATIONAL MASTERY SCORECARD.

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Openxcell

JULY 4, 2022

Scrum Master and Project Manager profiles are quite distinct though most of the people get confused. What is Scrum? Scrum is a framework that helps teams to encourage self organization and generate effective solutions against complex issues. Scrum guides the product creation and focuses on value and high visibility.

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scruminc

MARCH 26, 2021

As an Agile consultant, that’s what I hear on a pretty regular basis coming from Shared Services teams. It’s just that ‘Waterfall’ doesn’t support the Agile mindset in the same way other frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban do (and waterfall can encourage bad behaviors). . . by Robert Woods | March 26, 2021 | Blog. “It

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 1, 2021

A Sprint Backlog consists of a set of Product Backlog Items (PBIs) that the Developers think they can complete in the Sprint, along with the work needed, described in small enough chunks that progress can be tracked throughout the Sprint. Most Scrum Teams simply use whatever their online Scrum tool feeds them for their Sprint Backlog.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 29, 2019

It will help your team share new strategies, open new business opportunities, share best practices and find solutions to challenges the company face. CoPs can thrive in online or offline settings, making them perfect for both typical corporate set up and companies with remote teams. Provide Resources and Support to New Communities.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 25, 2019

Communities of Practice should be able to provide an opportunity for your team to build their expertise and deepen their knowledge in your industry. However, in its early stage, initiating and encouraging your team to make CoPs work can be a bit challenging. Survey your employees to define actual problems. In conclusion.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 20, 2020

From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: Are your hand shivering and pouring yourself with sweat right before your scrum master interview? If so, this “ Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers ” article can, without a doubt, boost your confidence up and put your worries at rest.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 12, 2019

Hardening Sprints are one of the most common kinds of Scrum Anti-Patterns: ways of addressing recurring problems that seem like effective solutions at the time but in fact hamper productivity or create more problems later on. In software development work, a design pattern is a description of a solution to a recurring problem.

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scruminc

AUGUST 16, 2019

For 2019 we’re expanding the suggestions from the Scrum Inc. Team to include podcasts and even some TV shows. Jeff Sutherland, Founder and Principal Consultant of Scrum Inc. and co-creator of Scrum recommends: " Co unterpart " American Sci-Fi Thriller Series (TV). McCaul's favorite Scrum role is that of Scrum Master.

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scruminc

JULY 26, 2018

We asked our team what books they are taking to the beach this summer and they responded with some great suggestions; a combination of fiction, non-fiction, business books and academic papers that make for great additions to any reading list. Jeff Sutherland, Founder and Principal Consultant of Scrum Inc. 2018 Scrummer Reading List.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In our Scrum Alone is Not Enough discussion on Portfolio Management , we talked about what it is, and how the use of a Portfolio Kanban Board can help visualize challenges that are inhibiting work, including with parallel teams. This is complex work, and the whole department has only 5 people to do all of this work for all teams.

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Mentormate

JANUARY 31, 2023

We’ve discussed implementing digital transformation at an enterprise scale , the importance of design research , and how successful teams plan and execute ideas. Teams may adopt the names of Agile roles and ceremonies but simply take a waterfall process and break it up into sprint-sized chunks.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In Scrum, Product Backlog Refinement is an essential meeting of the Product Owner and the Development Team to gain clarity and a shared understanding of what needs to be done through discussion and sharing of ideas. Paula – the Product Owner of Steve’s team. Getting Ready for Product Backlog Refinement.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

How can we train teams to consistently produce quality code without negatively impacting productivity? David Green, discuss Agile Dojos and how they can make teams more effective. Dojos provide a six-week training ground where teams focus on recognizing and replicating value by pairing, mobbing, and swarming. Episode 46.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). Where does product management fit between sales and development? (26:31).

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Codegiant

APRIL 14, 2020

In this article, you’ll find out whether Agile or Waterfall is more suitable for your team. And make an accurate assessment of which methodology is best suitable for your team. The Agile methodology definition was introduced by 17 software developers gathered in Utah back in 2001. Teams that can manage themselves are the best.

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