The ideas behind Agile (before it was a buzzword) largely arose from practitioners looking to eliminate painful or silly management practices between them and their craft. When I first did Scrum, it was more fun than any way I’d worked before. As a member of a self organizing team, we negotiated Sprint Goals with the [...]
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If you’ve been following the work of behavioral economists and authors such as Dan Pink, or you’ve read my article What Your HR Department Doesn’t Know About Scrum, you already know that truely Agile organizations have abandoned last-century’s habit of treating employees as rats in a B.F. Skinner box with conditional punishments and conditional rewards, [...]
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If you’ve spent some time in Los Angeles, you may have noticed that restaurants auspiciously post a “letter grade” rating. The letters range from A to F and represent the most recent health inspection assessment. Any restaurant meeting over 90% of the health inspector’s criteria is given an “A” rating. These signs are large enough [...]
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The Backlog Refinement Meeting is also called Product Backlog Grooming, Backlog Estimation, and even Story Time. Ken Schwaber didn’t give it an official name in the original Scrum books but he did say the team should set aside a little time for this every single Sprint. For example, if you’re doing two-week Sprints, the team [...]
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One client asked me to write a job description for a ‘ScrumMaster of ScrumMasters.’ So I made up one, based on what I understand of the role. What is a ScrumMaster of ScrumMasters? A ScrumMaster is a role for a person who helps impressive Scrum teams in their forming, welfare, and continuous improvement through servant [...]
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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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