In Part 1 of Scrum evolution over time we looked at the high level overview of Scrum and how it has changed over the years. In this post, part 2 of 5, we look at the roles and how they have adapted, or not, over the years. There are three defined roles for Scrum – …
Daily retrospectives are is not a new idea, but it is important to recognise and re-iterate that there are other things than just running a retrospective at the end of each iteration. Consider the heart of Agile for a moment – it is a reflective improvement framework aimed at dealing with the complexities of imperfect …
Ken Schwaber doesn’t tweet very regularly. It is usually only a few tweets a month. But yesterday some of the Agile community went a little in a flurry over a tweet that he sent out: If you clicked through to the link you went to a website called controlchaos.com. For reference, here is a screen …
Phil Kan (philxan on twitter) recently sent in a problem to the The Agile Revolution problem bag: We have a Product Manager who’s supportive of Agile in theory, but won’t do the work we need him to do. How do we manage that? A few tweets later we learnt a little more… They aren’t available for the …
Do you know what the difference is between an epic, a theme, a user story, a feature and a MMF is? I am willing to stand up and say that I have no idea anymore. I have just spent over an hour looking over books, presentations and blogs to try and find the answer and …
Ten years ago some smart guys got together to find what they had in common despite being to some extent competitors to each other. I like to think that whilst at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort that they jumped into an extra large jacuzzi and sorted their differences to find their passions that aligned. At …
I posted recently about my fascination with online role playing games and how some of what intrigues me is around the area of incentives. This has had a bit of attention in the Agile space with Daniel Pink covering off motivation in his book ‘Drive’ but for the quick versions you can see his TED …
One of the first few comments to my partner after I touched down back into Brisbane last night was ‘Gosh I’m buggered. It’s been such a long week!’ He smirked at me and shyly commented ‘Monday was a public holiday. And you still have to work tomorrow.’ Was it really just two days? It felt …
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