Organizations usually don’t adopt Scrum because they like its name. Instead, they have heard that software development is better if they use Scrum – quicker, cheaper, higher quality, more satisfied customers and employees. Sometimes things are so bad in software development that they try Scrum just because it wasn’t what they were doing before. However, … Continue reading »
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What Comes After Scrum?
Scrum is not the be-all and end-all process for software and product development. As many of you have noticed, it is barely a process, only a framework. You have to provide all the development, management, product management, and people practices. So, what does Scrum provide? It provides a labeled- environment within which complex development can … Continue reading »
Culture Change: A new viewpoint
I read an idea about culture change that is different. “if you need to change an entire culture, here’s a tip: don’t be too idealistic about human nature.” The article, in the Sunday 23 Boston Globe (http://goo.gl/jYLdY) posits that people don’t change because you appeal to their better side, or that you convincingly show them a … Continue reading »
I Have a Question
I have a question!! “I have a team that won’t self-organize.” “ My team always selects more PBIs than they can do. The members say that the software is too complex and corrupt to finish anything.” “My Product Owner isn’t engaged.” What do I do?? In my Scrum classes, I ground everyone in the theory … Continue reading »
Self-organization and our belief that we are in charge
The Scrum Master only has the authority to ensure that the Scrum Team follows the rules of Scrum. If not immediately compliant, then working toward compliance increasingly and consistently (for instance, transparency of the increment surpasses most development teams skills and tooling initially). The Scrum Master has not authority to tell the development team or … Continue reading »
Waste Not
Waste impedes agility. It not only slows progress, but it robs money that could otherwise go to creating value. I was considering waste in light of the notions of velocity and capacity. Some Scrum users try to predict the outcome of the upcoming Sprint using velocity, the amount of work or PBIs they predict can … Continue reading »
Scrum But Replaced by Scrum And
Five years ago, the term, “Scrum-But” became popular. This phrase pointed out the gap between just using Scrum-and building great products with Scrum. I would ask someone if they were using Scrum. They would respond, “We use Scrum, but we can’t always complete all the regression testing within a Sprint, so we often have regression … Continue reading »
New Book: Software in Thirty Days
Software In Thirty Days (or less) Jeff Sutherland and I have done it. We wrote a book together, our first joint writing since the initial publication of Scrum in 1995. What prompted us? The question that we frequently are asked: How do we sell Scrum to our management? I’ve always been puzzled by this question. … Continue reading »
The First CSM’s
Many people claim to have been at the first Scrum Master class that I taught in May, 2003. Here is a picture of the class and list of people there. Ken
I was thinking …
I was thinking about New Year Resolutions. I thought about resolving to be a more friendly, warm, compassionate, conciliatory, moderate, and compromising person. My thinking was prompted by a recent email, that informed me: “After all these years, of hearing people talking about you, I defended you. I tried to appease them … maybe as … Continue reading »
