Webinar: 11 Patterns from “A Scrum Book”

Last Monday we held a webinar on the 11 patterns from “A Scrum Book.”

If you are new to the Patterns, we will give you some help here.

1. Get a copy of “A Scrum Book” by Jeff Sutherland, James Coplien, et al.
2. Also see: ScrumPlop.org
3. Also see: ScrumBook.org

Both ScrumPlop and ScrumBook show the same 94 Patterns that are in the book.  But each website has some different and useful features than the other.

The 11 patterns were chosen from the 94 patterns available because Jeff Sutherland picked those patterns for an article titled: “Teams That Finish Early Accelerate Faster.”  I think that’s an especially important and useful article.  You can find that short paper here:

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Now I wanted to share some great Links that Doug Robinson found. (Doug, tell me if you want to give readers a way to contact you.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander

Christopher Alexander is the singular person most responsible for the Patterns movement.  (I guess I must call it movement, although I’d prefer a different term if I had one.)  Mr Alexander was an architect (mainly), and wrote two books that are directly relevant: “A Timeless Way of Building” and “A Pattern Language.”

I believe there is a wikipedia article on the book: “A Pattern Language”.

https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html

The above link gives you the text of two speeches or sets of remarks.  The first by James Coplien.  Who was introducing the next speaker: Christopher Alexander.

Below you see the Youtube of Mr. Alexander’s speech.

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A bit more:

Here is wikipedia article on James Coplien:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Coplien

I particularly draw your attention to THIS book of his (mentioned in that article):
Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development

Finally (for today) I want to mention Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising. And particularly their book:

More Fearless Change

I think making change happen is hard.  Change, of course, happens all the time, with or without our help. But I think if we modestly try, every day, some of these [60] patterns, then we might all have a better world. That is, Ms. Manns and Ms. Rising applied Alexander’s patterns idea to a very different domain.

Although I am not Irish, I was inspired to close with two lines from an Irish prayer (or some might say, a song):

May the road rise up to meet you
May the wind be always at your back

The wind always at my back is a very pleasant thought indeed, on this hot and muggy day where I am today.

 

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