Any sports coach knows that the Team must have desire.
In my classes I talk to the people about how much improvement they expect to make in 1 year. With 1 team. Often it is in the 20% range.
And I use Henry Ford’s famous quote: “Whether you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.” So, I usually think that 100% improvement in 1 year is realistic for a specific team.
As...
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We want all Scrum teams to become hyper-productive.
Why?
Well, so they can enjoy life and be satisfied. And feel like they accomplished something. So, in part, this requires that...
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Umm. Good question. We partly discussed this in an earlier post.
First, the Scrum Guide (2011) does not require that the PO attend the Daily Scrum. If you asked Jeff Sutherland...
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This is a quote by Wayne Gretzky.
I am flying to Canada now. And I like hockey.
Today the quote reminds me of how hard change is.
To make any change happen in an organization is hard. ...
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Bas Voode originated a test. 7 or 8 items. Jeff Sutherland and others liked it. Eventually it became known as the ScrumButt Test.
They developed the test to check whether a...
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We have been talking about Kanban a bit lately in other venues.
Let’s talk about some key Kanban ideas in Scrum. Here.
1. Do the most important thing first.
In Scrum, we want...
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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,...
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I guess I will take credit for this phrase (see title).
To me, it reflects a key idea behind lean-agile-scrum.
It is an idea expressed in many other ways also. Ex: The perfect...
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I think our (your) business is about knowledge creation. (Well, knowledge creation is key for almost all the people who come to my courses and workshops.) It is about innovation,...
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In a word: Yes, if done professionally.
How is release planning, and release plan refactoring…how are they useful?
A few ideas:
It enables the Team to share ideas
It allows the...
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I have written a new booklet that I want you to have (I think you will find it useful) and also to comment on.
It is about Agile Release Planning.
It proposes that agile release planning...
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Yesterday I enjoyed talking to Southern Fried Agile, the local one-day agile conference. My topic was this: Three steps toward greater business value.
I was also pleased to see that...
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We have this idea in Agile, that the Team should self-organize. This is an important idea. And also an important occurrence (eg, the reality precedes the idea).
In Agile, self-organization...
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This is a “just enough, just in time” concept.
Please read these blog posts:
http://scrum.jeffsutherland.com/2009/11/enabling-specifications-key-to-building.html
http://scrum.jeffsutherland.com/2008/09/agile-spefiction-is-it-hoaz-or.html...
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Scrum requires a real team.
The word ‘team’ is often used, often in different ways. So, let us define it.
According to “The Discipline of Teams” by Katzenbach and Smith,...
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The list below is not self-explanatory, but it covers the key ideas one has to know and execute on to do Scrum professionally. Of course, becoming proficient at doing them at the...
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This is, to me, still a New Year. And a friend suggested I talk about New Years' resolutions. Or something like them, Sprint commitments.Henry Ford said: Whether you think you can...
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