All organizations are plagued by dysfunction—those impediments or obstacles that stand in the way of realizing their full potential. One of the benefits of an agile process like Scrum is that it helps expose these dysfunctions.
Although finding and addressing…
This is part three in a series of blog posts derived from a one-hour Q&A session I had with University of Alabama students who were using my Essential Scrum book as the core of their course curriculum. You can read the prior two blog post here:
Part two in a series of blog posts derived from a one-hour Q&A session I had with University of Alabama students who were using my Essential Scrum book as the core of their course curriculum. You can read the first blog in this serires (“Becoming Agile”) here.
This is part one in a series of blog posts derived from a one-hour Q&A session I had with University of Alabama students who were using my Essential Scrum book as the core of their course curriculum.
One of the things I’m most proud of is that my book, Essential Scrum,…
We’ve all experienced projects that, despite our best efforts, delivered late, weren’t up to our quality standards, and didn’t quite meet our customer’s needs. Failed projects not only negatively impact the bottom line, they also can damage reputations and crush morale.…
After years of training it is clear to me that many people do much better with pictures than they do with text. I myself am a visual learner, which is why in my presentations I shun bullet points in favor of graphics that help most people understand and retain the…
One of the core principles of agile is to inspect and adapt. The daily scrum is one of three critical inspect-and-adapt activities defined in the Scrum framework.
As you can see in the picture, the daily scrum happens (everyday) during sprint execution – after sprint…
In previous blogs I introduced the concept of antifragile with a focus on how antifragility helps us deal with risks during agile development. I also blogged about how having flexible scope makes us antifragile. In this post, I explain why limiting work in process (WiP)…
Most every week I am out training or coaching with one or two companies around the world. So, I am exposed to how many different companies are applying agile development – sometimes successfully, other times not so much.
Since my clients know that I visit many different…
I am frequently asked who should attend the various Scrum meetings—sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and product backlog grooming. My Essential Scrum book provides detailed answers to all of these questions. However, after numerous…