Scrum
Scrum is the most popular agile method… if you count all of the teams doing “Scrum Butt”. Doing Scrum really well is much harder and much rarer. Here is a list of 24 common pitfalls or bad behaviours of Scrum teams:
Excessive Preparation/Planning: Regular big up-front planning is not necessary with Scrum. Instead, a team can just get started and use constant feedback in the Sprint Review...
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I have worked with a lot of people, teams and organizations over the last 8 years helping them to adopt Scrum and I have seen some interesting patterns about where Scrum works well...
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Hi all. Apologies in advance for this slight deviation from my normal topic, but I have done a deal with New Relic so that any All About Agile readers that sign up and deploy their...
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The real question sent to me was:What are some tips for integrating our SCRUM model with non-Scrum groups who will not be adopting the process?One can go many places with this question,...
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Recently, I attended two retrospectives. Different teams, different states, different facilitators. I’m usually on the other side, leading retrospectives.
Both retrospectives...
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If anyone thinks Scrum is now known to everyone involved in software development or project management, think again. 'What is Scrum' is still one of the most searched terms on the...
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I’ve been struck how little is written about being a great Scrum Master. There is heaps written about Scaling Agile and a lot of great Technical books, but very little on playing...
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“The thinking that got us here isn’t the thinking that’s going to get us where we need to be.” attributed to Albert Einstein
I have this niggling concern about retrospectives.
I...
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I was talking to a colleague about one problem, and then said, "but this is not our biggest problem -- our biggest problem is lame scrum implementations."
So, I thought I would discuss...
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At this point in my coaching career, I’ve worked with lots of teams, in lots of companies, trying to adopt Scrum. I’ve seen teams do exceedingly well… and I’ve seen a few totally...
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I was talking to a great person at a firm that will not be named.
He is in charge of a large implementation of agile for a large group within a much larger organization.
They...
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There are various agile methodologies, although 'agile development' is really a philosophy, not a methodology. A set of values and principles. The agile manifesto describes these...
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Scrum is the form of agile software development that has helped me the most.
It has helped me to transform the performance of the web development groups that I've led at both my...
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