GREAT DALLAS ICE STORM OF 2013

This blog is the sequel to my earlier blog - Enterp

WALT'S CHALLENGE   

The Scrum Guide begins the description of the role of the Product Owner as follows:

There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love... I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.

In Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen’s book Great by Choice, a comparison is made between two expeditions to Antarctica in 1911. One of the expeditions mentioned is that of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian who was first to step on the South Pole.

A pair of recent findings from the Standish Group confirm the astonishing success and cost savings of Agile approaches over waterfall.

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This is the second post in a three part series. Please like, share and commentand I’ll be sure to update you when the next post in the series comes out.

Through my years of trial and error,  I have learned there is no one size fits all solution to transitioning organizations to agile...context is king!

VersionOne does an annual "State of Agile Development" survey and publishes the results for the cost of your email address.  Thanks VersionOne!

The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context.

If you have seen the TV documentary series Hoarders which depicted the real-life struggles of people who suffer from compulsive hoarding. Some victims suffered so severely that they were often drowning within their own filth.

The Scrum Guide requires that the Product Owner ensure that "key stakeholders" attend the Scrum Sprint Review, but who are these "key stakeholders"?

Our topic is soccer, the 2013-2014 season’s Spanish Primary Division. Do you remember who finished the season first? Barcelona? Real Madrid?

In Jeff Haden's recent post entitled "The One Attitude Every Successful Person Has", I was struck at how aligned this attitude is with the Agile Mindset. What do you think?

Father's Day offered an annual moment for me to reflect on the journey of a humble and influential man whose life was tragically cut short in 2002 - my Dad. Although it has been a number of years since his passing, he continues

Recently discussing design and programming with an external programmer, he explained me his approach of defensive programming. But before going in detail of his explanations, Wikipedia help us to define the defensive programming:

I was recently contacted by a senior executive of a mid-sized company that is evolving their product development to Scrum. He explained a situation he had been in and wanted my opinion.

Scaled Professional Scrum is based on unit of development called a Nexus. The Nexus consists of up to 10 Scrum teams, the number depending on how well the code and design are structured, the domains understood, and the people organized.

Scrum brings agility to and creates Agile organizations through the implementation of empirical process control, the process of frequent inspection and adaptation.

I’ve been witness to the start of hundreds of teams and projects. There’s a point at which, during the launch of a new team even before the first Sprint, I can tell with fair certainty whether the team will be successful or not.

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Making a purchase can feel great when you’ve developed a rapport with the salesperson.

An analogy I can think of is... I want my dart to hit the dart board, and not necessarily the bull's eye.... as it calls for a lot of details which apparently is missing during estimation.

In his book Good to Great, author Jim Collins asks the reader:

“To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.” - Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell’s Soup

A program team of over 40 people decided to move to Agile from their traditional development practices. The program was old and had been in existence for over 6 years.

Do you hold the job title of Scrum Master in your organization?

To imbibe Agility in an organization which is a state of high responsiveness, speed, and adaptiveness organizations should promote a new organizational culture of openness, transparency, respect for people, constant learning, improving, and constant adapt

When reading the role of the Scrum Master in the Scrum guide, one of the core competencies is to facilitate meetings.

In this short video, I explain the challenges of scaling Scrum and how to create a Nexus™ to manage multiple Scrum teams to deliver an integrated increment every Sprint.

EMBARRASSING DISCOVERY

Dear Scrum Master!

“Eventbrite Order Notification” – This is probably one of the best mails I receive as a ScrumTrainer It usually means I have another student with whom I

Years ago I was complimented on “improving the group dynamic” by bringing in a cafetiere for the my agile team to use.  We developed a bit of a ritual around this object.  One person had made it clear that the kettle needed to be left to cool so

"Agile" (the label) is all over the place. Who would have guessed in early 2001?

Have you ever been in a meeting where you felt afraid to share a difficult and truthful statement? Was "the obvious" in the room the whole time, but no one would speak up and talk about it?