Scrum and Kanban – Do they play together?

Posted by Katie Playfair on July 26, 2010

Below is an excerpt from an email response I sent someone asking me about Kanban and Scrum and what they should do to determine which is more appropriate for their teams. This is just my personal opinion on this subject and I’m sure our trainers have MUCH better perspective to add! Bookmark on Delicious Digg [...]

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Scrum is not something “IT does”

Posted by Katie Playfair on June 24, 2010

Thanks to a ton of help from Michael James, I just put the finishing touches on my new webinar, “Necessary conditions for enterprise agile success: The subtle stuff you’re probably getting wrong.” In this presentation, I plan to review the common mistakes and pitfalls I witness at organizations around the world who have tried to [...]

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Looking backward and forward – Scrum in 2009 and 2010

Posted by Katie Playfair on December 30, 2009

I read an article on DZone today http://agile.dzone.com/articles/agile-2009 in which several members of the agile community reflected on agile in 2009 and made predictions about 2010. There are many great observations but what struck me the most was Mary Poppendieck’s 2010 prediction – “I expect that in 2010, more people will realize that software development, and [...]

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Soft Skills – What Do They Have to Do with Scrum?

Posted by Katie Playfair on July 29, 2009

On my Danube blog, I really try to stick to Scrum-specific topics that will help our clients, the software community, and other interested folks navigate the challenging process of Scrum transformations. In my daily life as a Scrum advocate, I encounter many misinterpretations of Scrum and I hope that, through my blogs, I can contribute [...]

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Dear Mr. Clarke: What Do You Mean by "Lean and Agile?"

Posted by Katie Playfair on July 29, 2009

In an email intercepted by the Associated Press last week, GM North America President Troy Clarke said, “In these unprecedented times, GM is reinventing every aspect of our business, including our organizational size and structure, to create a lean and agile company.” I immediately started wondering what Clarke meant by “lean and agile.” Ultimately, everybody [...]

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Shoe Shopping and Scrum – An Analogy to Explain the Pros of Certification

Posted by Katie Playfair on July 29, 2009

Everyone who was at Agile 2008 last year in Toronto probably remembers a dinner speech which poked equal fun at XP and Scrum enthusiasts with a punchline I don’t remember about XP and one I do remember about Scrum. The punchline was “certification!” Yes, it’s true – we Scrum professionals love our CSM, CSP, CSC, [...]

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