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Category Archives: Agile principles
Scrum teams and living in packs
My experience with people doing Scrum is that we tend to take the “man is rational and isolated” hypothesis too easily. Often it is not a thoughtful choice, just the implicit assumption of the way we are thinking or the way we speak. Isolated and individualistic are key words. If you believed in them, you […]
Freedom
For reasons unknown, I ran into a picture I took of a statue of Jefferson in Paris (it is along the Seine, near the Musee d’Orsay). Then I saw something else which led me to this quote from Jefferson, about the meaning of July 4th. I think it has a broader meaning, so I quote […]
Yogi Berra quotes
As some of you may know, my sense of humor, such as it is, finds Yogi Berra quotes both entertaining and educational. I use some of them in my classes. My hope is that the humor allows people to remember things a bit better. Or in some other magical way, helps learning. For those who […]
Freedom
It is July 4th today. It is a great day to remember Freedom. As I have said elsewhere, to my way of looking at the world, there is one word, love, that is greater than freedom. But perhaps only that one. [Side comment: God is love. So, we could say that God too is greater […]
Purpose of the Daily Scrum
What is the purpose of the Daily Scrum? First, how often do we have one? Obvious — daily! Well, apparently not so obvious to all. Some people think we need one twice a week. Let’s go back to the purpose. The purpose is to enable the team to make micro-adjustments in any dimension to land […]
Jeff Sutherland video: Basics of Scrum
Nice video. Five minutes. Highly recommended. Complex adaptive systems — an important idea. [The videos were moved around. This seems the best link.] Other great videos on this same page now.
“The bad news does not get better with age.”
“The bad news does not get better with age.” I use this phrase, this key principle, several times in my Scrum courses. I say: “Women get better with age, Wine gets better with age And cheese gets better with age, But the bad news, in our business, does not get better with age.” Digression: Some […]
Giving context
I am in Norfolk and the weather is foggy, and I am thinking about how best to do Release Planning. More specifically, how to plan for a big two-year project where everyone is used to a waterfall approach. So, here are some thoughts. Our problem is like being lost at sea in a fog — […]
Scrum and Release Planning
I went to the Agile Ottawa group last night. Mostly I very much enjoyed the meeting — a lot of smart people, a lot of good discussions, but… A Sad Tale A gentleman there, a serious business guy, new to Scrum, said something like this: “It seems to me that Scrum has no up-front planning, […]
Scrum Prototyping, Sprint Zero (NO) and
I was talking with some smart people at a client’s location. They said: “We do a Sprint -1 where we do rapid Scrum prototyping. We do a Sprint every day, produce a new version of the GUI, etc., and review it with the customer team daily. It lasts for two weeks, or did last time. […]