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Yearly Archives: 2021
Webinar: Alternatives to Scaling 3 Teams
This is another in our Webinar Series. 1 hour. Topic: Alternatives to Scaling 3 Teams Date: July 20th, at 4 pm EDT, for 1 hour. Format: Online. There are many definitions of “scaling”. For now, we are defining scaling as putting 3 Teams together to work closely on a big, high coupling – high cohesion […]
Webinar: Scrum Patterns
This is another in our Webinar Series. 1 hour. Topic: Scrum Patterns (Improve Now) Date: June 17th, at 2pm EDT, for 1 hour. Online. We will introduce the idea of Scrum Patterns, and discuss some background. And then mainly discuss 10 key patterns that can make your Team better now. These are from the patterns […]
James Coplien / Scrum Patterns
On April 28, 2021, we had an Agile Carolinas meeting. Very large group (up to 90 I think), from many parts of the world. Certainly Europe and the US were well-represented. And James Coplien gave a wonderful talk on Scrum Patterns and related topic. To be brief, Coplien is the co-author of A Scrum Book, […]
Webinar: 2 Patterns for Managers
This is another in our Webinar Series. 1 hour. One: Impediment Removal Team The basics of the idea are simple. You form a Scrum Team with Managers. The job of the team is to fix impediments for a group of Teams (say, 5 to 20 teams). In the Product Backlog of the IRT is a […]
Webinar: Managers and Team self-managing
This is another in our $5 Webinar Series. 1 hour. The new Scrum Guide says that Teams should be self-managing. And Jeff Sutherland says managers are essential in Scrum. Broadly we know that there are some “poorly trained” managers, at least from an agile viewpoint. And others find there are good managers out there (at […]
Scrum Guides 2020 – 2009
Here are some Scrum Guides: 2020-Scrum-Guide-US Scrum-Guide-US-2017 Scrum-Guide-US-2016 Scrum Guide July 2013 Scrum Guide Oct 2011 Scrum_Guide_v1_Scrum_Alliance_Feb2010 Scrum Guide Nov 2009 This appears to be the only Scrum Guide issued only by Scrum.org Scrum_Guide-20090706 This is the original Scrum Guide, that Ken Schwaber wrote and issued before he left Scrum Alliance. There is a proto-Scrum […]
Webinar: Renewing Your Certification
I just did a half-hour webinar on this topic. Lots of good questions. Two main methods: Gather X (often 20) SEUs (Scrum Educational Units) (eg, to renew your CSM) Take or re-take a Scrum Alliance certification course (eg, re-take the CSM course) I will give this webinar again in a few weeks. You are welcome […]
Renewing Your Certification
Updated: August 31, 2023. Cut-to-the-chase: Your key takeaway may be: Re-Take the CSM or CSPO with Joe because simpler and “cheaper”. Explained in section 3 below. *** Should you renew your Scrum Alliance certification? Yes! I think it helps, it increases your knowledge, it should enable you to do Agile better with your Team, and […]
Agile Release Planning – Questions
QUESTIONS Joe – during an agile release planning session how long do you estimate it will take for Business Sponsors to point approx 50 stories? Actually, I’m estimating we will need 32 stories for 6 months. Yes, I’m looking to hold an ARP at the end of Feb for 1 feature. Thanks, Craig REPLY First, […]
BV Points – 1
QUESTION Hi Joe – reading your ARP book, and you talk about BV and highest number is 100. But, what is the harm in using regular 1,2,5,8,13 Fibonacci numbers for business value? I do get when you find R that it will be lower. R = Bv (5) / SP (5) would mean an R […]