If you’re having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online. To subscribe to this distribution, please email to: info@keystepstosuccess.com. Reminder: Few seats remaining in Certified Large Scale Scrum (December 19-21) This week’s Certified Agile Leaderhip Workshop in Orlando This was an amazing two and a half-day working session, with participation of … Read more
This was an amazing two and a half-day working session, with participation of organizational leaders and enterprise coaches coming together from different parts of the world: Sweden, Costa Rica and USA. One of the co-creators of Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) course – Pete Behrens took the mixed group, consisting of managers and coaches through a very engaging training … Read more
Tweet The first ever Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Conference took place on August 30th -31st of 2016. Budgeted to accommodate around 150 people, it was oversubscribed (around 180). The event took place in the beautiful city of Amsterdam, in the cathedral style audience hall Rode Hoed. What you will find summarized below, are the topics … Read more
In February of 2001, in Snowbird UT, a group of seventeen bright software developers got together to discuss software development methods that were lightweight and easy to implement. The term that they decided to use to describe these methods was “agile” and the 4 main postulates that they all agreed to became known as “Agile Manifesto“. … Read more
Bjarte Bogsnes (left) has a long international career, both in Finance and HR. He is currently heading up the Beyond Budgeting implementation at Statoil, Scandinavia’s largest company with operations in 36 countries and a turnover of 130 bn USD. On Fortune 500, the company was recently ranked #1 on Social responsibility and #7 on Innovation. Transparency … Read more
This article was split in two parts and is no posted at: Handling Interruptions in Scrum: 4 Options (Part 1) Handling Interruptions in Scrum: 4 Options (Part 2) (log in might be required)
Provoked by Viktor Grgic’s ironic thinking (see the graphic immediately below), this meet-up took on a form of a heated collaborative session. Here are some Kodak moments captured:
This event was about comparing and contrasting the following four known scaled agile frameworks: For LeSS (Craig Larman’s and Bas Vodde’s) For Nexus (Ken Schwaber’s) For Scrum @ Scale (Jeff Sutherland’s) For SAFe (Dean Leffingwell’s) The discussion was very engaging but conclusive and many topics remained to-be-discussed in a future. Below, please find the … Read more
“The idea of a merit rating is alluring. The sound of the words captivates the imagination: pay for what you get; get what you pay for; motivate people to do their best, for their own good. The effect is exactly the opposite of what the words promise.” -Edward Deming, “Out of Crisis” This article took … Read more
Tweet First, we covered basic dynamics of Scrum (roles, artifacts, ceremonies). Then, we shifted gears to ‘activities on a typical project’ and the group 20, or so, did a “brain dump” of all possible activities they could think of at the moment. Then, we removed redundancies, cleaned up the board ….played “Who Stole my Cheese?” game, … Read more
