I’ve got a great job! As part of being a CSM trainer, I’m frequently invited to client sites, where I can see what clients are doing and observe their agile practices in action. Sometimes clients are just starting to adopt Scrum and, other times, they’ve been practicing for a while. Sometimes they are just exploring [...]
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In part 1 of my report on the Trainers Gathering I gave an gave a summary of the events that occurred. In this post I’d like to discuss one of the exercises that was discussed. Boris‘ Ball Point game is a fun and exciting way to explore process flow. The rules are quite simple and [...]
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About two weeks ago, a Scrum Trainers’ Gathering was held in Boston. About 25 Certified Scrum Trainers (CSTs) from all over the world gathered for a great two-day event, discussing training exercises, different approaches to training, and other related issues. There were a number of sessions that I found to be of particular interest and [...]
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Team self-organization is one of the key principles [1] of Scrum and its introduction to an organization raises a number of interesting questions around decisions and decision making. Specifically, the introduction of Scrum leads to consensus-based decisions by the team. I believe that the consensus model of decision is superior the an authoritarian model and [...]
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Is your team having difficulty forecasting when a project will be completed? Do you have a large number of un-estimated Stories in your product backlog? Are your planning meetings several days long and full of confrontation? If so, it could be that you’re forgetting to “groom” your product backlog. Ken Schwaber generally advises that the [...]
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Copenhagen is a nice small city with a great deal of history, many beautify buildings and friendly, funny, crazy people! I’d been to Copenhagen many, many years ago, but I’m always looking for new and interesting facts. Here are some things I never knew about Denmark: There is a bridge that links Copenhagen to Sweden, [...]
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