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Are there Project Managers in Scrum? No (but…)
Scrum has only 3 roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster and Implementer. Who is responsible for ‘the project’? Well, that would be the whole Team. What do we do with George, who was a Project Manager (PM)? Well, we have to talk to George. Maybe he would make a great ScrumMaster or a great Product Owner. Or […]
Our Favorite Scrum Mistakes
Ah, Valentine’s Day! A day for a simpler love than “love your enemies.” Even the simple love is quite complex. Well, as long as one is not besotted like Romeo below the balcony. Or Juliet above. When one is besotted, then love is truly simple. Other days, it is not. Or so I am told. […]
Do we Estimate in Scrum? Yes!
A really smart and experienced colleague says we should not estimate. Specifically: in Scrum we should not estimate. Now, to get into the deep inner-workings of Lean and Continuous Flow…well, I am not going to go there today. As a minor point, I will say the latest Scrum Guide to me, says we estimate in […]
“If you wait for perfection, you might wait too long.”
I guess I will take credit for this quote (see title). “The relentless pursuit of perfection.” I mostly like that idea. (That was the slogan of the Lexus brand.) But ‘waiting for perfection’ usually means analysis paralysis. Or maybe other things. To me, it reflects a key idea behind lean-agile-scrum. It is an idea expressed in […]
Agile – Penny Game Rules
As attendees of my courses know, I like to use the Penny Game. So, I wanted to share more. Rules: 1. Say: “We are about to see who is the best penny processor in all of [city] today. And the winner, with the best single round, will win $20.” 2. Select 4 players (these will […]
Agile Release Planning is not about the Plan
Here is one key observation about release planning from the past week and a half. I have been working in France. I have worked with 3 different companies, and a bunch of great people. In the third class, we did a 2-day workshop. The Workshop was mainly about agile release planning, using the real work […]
Choosing a Scrum course/trainer
This is a question I get from time to time: How should I choose between one course/trainer and another? This is an important question and deserves some thought. It does not deserve, in my opinion, a simple answer, as one might get from Zagat’s about a restaurant. The choice is different than choosing yet another […]
The Team and the Implementer Role
There has been, in several places, some good discussion about the roles in Scrum. And often the discussion turns (explicitly or implicitly) to ‘what is the Team and what does it mean?’ The Team The full team is what is most important. Product Owner (PO), ScrumMaster (SM), and Implementers. Together. About 7 in total. Ideally […]
Who should fix Impediments?
In the Certified ScrumMasters LinkedIn group, Michael asked: Who should fix impediments, the SM or the Team? His answer was: Both. And then he discussed. This topic has drawn a fair number of comments. Here is one of mine. *** 1. Michael is right. Who should fix the impediments and how much the Team should […]
A fourth Google video (Lean-Agile)
Thanks to Artem Marchenko for mentioning the Poppendieck’s talk at Google, titled Competing on the basis of Speed.