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Aggressive Scrum to produce real value – Jeff Sutherland interview
Brent Barton has a good interview with Jeff Sutherland on a great topic. Watch! https://youtu.be/rT28dmremZc
ScrumButt Test (6): Estimates created by the Team
Another installment on the ScrumButt Test. So, the next item on the test says: “The Product Backlog has estimates created by the Team.” Why is this important and what does it mean? Let’s consider the meaning first. So, normally in Scrum estimates mean estimates of relative size/complexity in Story Points. See Mike Cohn’s book: Each […]
Joe’s Unofficial Scrum Checklist V1.3
It is Memorial Day weekend and time for another edition of Joe’s Unofficial Scrum Checklist. (smile) No, not really. Someone in class asked what he could use to check if his teams were using Scrum well. I suggested: The ScrumButt Test – 8 points. “A list summarizing Scrum” (V.5) – 2 sides of one page. […]
Agile’s broad adoption and mediocrity – what to do
Ken Judy has an excellent, although blunt, blog post here: http://judykat.com/ken-judy/agilescrumlean-broad-adoption-mediocrity-faul/ His main point maybe is that we do not have enough truly professional scrum (or agile) implementations. And why? Because we have implemented too broadly too fast. Is probably the main reason, in his opinion. Some good insights. Read them. *** Here are my […]
Joe’s Unofficial Scrum Checklist
Henrik Kniberg did a Scrum Checklist a while ago. Occasionally students at courses ask me for a similar thing. One always wonders: what are the most important questions to ask? What are the most important things to consider? Nothing that is somewhat short can address all the issues one finds in the real world, with […]
The Biggest Problem
Jeff Sutherland believes that the biggest problem with Scrum teams, the most frequently encountered problem, is that the Team does not have working product at the end of the Sprint. This is fundamental to Scrum. And, in my view, fundamental to being successful. Why is this so important? First, working product enables the empirical process; it […]
Lame Scrum Implementations
I was talking to a colleague about one problem, and then said, “but this is not our biggest problem — our biggest problem is lame scrum implementations.” So, I thought I would discuss that. First, truly, our biggest problem is not Scrum or anything to do with Scrum. Our biggest problem is to figure out […]