Some late breaking events caused several students in a recent Certified Scrum Product Owner class to reschedule, leaving only five students in the class. I (Lyssa) had arranged for a candidate Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Brian Rabon, to co-teach with me in this class. He and I had some fancy footwork to do as many [...]
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This year, I encountered my first classroom-full of people who had never worked waterfall. Now, I don’t talk a lot about waterfall versus Scrum when I teach the Certified ScrumMaster course, just enough to set the stage for why Scrum arose when it did. I show some data about the appalling failure rates of projects [...]
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Common challenges often laid at the doorstep of upper management as an organization starts to see the benefits of Scrum are a noisy host of problems that usher in the need for a trio of mind-set changes: resource utilization vs. throughput, competition vs. collaboration and command-and-control vs. servant leadership. In my experience, most of the [...]
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Do the teams you coach seem to be stuck in a rut? Do you wish they would stand up for themselves when company management hands down a decision that harms them? Do they blindly accept situations that cause impediments to their work, assuming they can’t affect them anyway? If your attempts to help have been [...]
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Humor me. Try this. Find a private place – a small conference room will do nicely. Stand in the center of the room and imagine that you are a boat in the middle of the ocean. The BIG ocean. First imagine that you are a dinghy. You know, one of those small life raft type [...]
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The treadmill inspired this blog post. The “post workout results” notified me that I had burned a whopping 132 calories. “Really?” I thought, “That’s all?” So, I guess I can afford one Reese’s peanut butter cup today or perhaps five Doritos. It reminded me that jogging can only be one part of a healthy body [...]
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