UPDATE: please note that the Scrum Mentorship Programme is no longer running. For information on our latest mentorship scheme, please go to agilementorcircle.org “How do I start using Scrum?” is a question I get asked a lot. “Where can I go to get some hands-on training?” is another. The need is… Read More »Scrum Mentorship Programme
Who can the play the roles of Product Owner and ScrumMaster? And do they need to be full-time? The ScrumMaster Can the ScrumMaster perform the role of Product Owner? No. There is a potential for a conflict of interest. One of the duties of the ScrumMaster is to protect the… Read More »Duplicate Roles
In May 2004, David J. Anderson wrote a blog post about pride as a motivator (which is printed in his excellent new-ish book, Lessons in Agile Management: On the Road to Kanban). A decade on, I think it still has resonance. A summary of his blog post is: Teams in… Read More »Pride as a motivator
This week, I ran into Justin. He’s a fellow-commuter who I see sporadically. Justin works for a Government department and is never one to hold back from sharing his wisdom with us. In return, we playfully mock his lavish holiday allowance and 9-to-5 attitude. When I mentioned that I am… Read More »Conference Crimes
Agile and Lean communities love acronyms* (PBI, CFD, PO, TDD, INVEST, and so on), but the most misunderstood of all is MVP. Most people seem to think that “Minimum Viable Product” means the minimum amount of work you need to do to a product before you can put it to… Read More »What is an MVP?
“Doing things you don’t enjoy reduces your effectiveness.” – Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry in Personal Kanban I agree: aren’t you much more effective when you are doing things that you find fulfilling and are doing them with people you like? I know I am. I also agree that… Read More »Subjective Well-Being
We all make predictions and are encouraged to do so: from everyday decisions on whether a situation will harm us, to conscious estimates on how the stock markets will act. In my world, teams are regularly asked to predict when something will be ready for market or how big a… Read More »Predictions
When was the last time that you sat down with a team from another company and discussed how each of you tackled a similar problem? How often do you knowledge-share with other firms to learn from one another? Chances are you never have. Most companies seem to prefer to remain… Read More »Share and share alike
Does having too much money discourage a company from being agile? Why are cash-starved start-ups often much better at it? Over the years I’ve found that larger companies struggle at being agile whilst it is almost second nature to start-ups. Within big organisations, blame is often directed towards “old-school managers”.… Read More »Do big companies have too much money to be agile?
The blog post read: “For my teams, as they cannot fully shield themselves from changes in a Sprint, the 20% reserve allows them to [adapt]/deal with most changes, and keep their Sprint commitments.” The team was breaking work down into hours, then keeping a “slush fund” of spare hours to… Read More »Sprint Goals
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