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
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:
On Thursday, July 28th of 2016, there was a Americas Architecture Forum at Credit Suisse in NYC, with participation of Jeff Sutherland – the co-creator of Agile Manifesto and co-founder of Scrum and Co-author of The Scrum Guide. Below, are some additional artifacts that are available to everyone: Copy of “Shu-Ha-Ri of Scrum@Scale” presentation deck … Read more
On July 7th and 8th, in New York, there was Certified Scrum Product Owner Course delivered by two co-trainers: Avi Schenier, representing Jeff Sutherland’s company ScrumInc and Robin Dymon, CST from Innovel. The class (size of about two scrum teams) was engaged in heated discussions, practical exercises and games. I had the honor of attending and participating in the course and was … Read more
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 30 people were served at NYC Scrum User Event – Coaching Clinic!!! Lots of fun and interesting discussions. Questions & Discussion Topics with Coaches: “Removing the noise” Growing agile advisory practice Picking up after failed agile transformations Transition from waterfall to agile Scrum at enterprise organization Scrumming in agency setting How to get good practice … 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
Tweet IMPORTANT: >>> References (bottom of page) Some time ago, there was a webinar recorded by VersionOne: How to use SAFe® to Deliver Value at Enterprise Scale Q&A Discussion with Dean Leffingwell). If you fast-forward to about 23 min, 20 seconds into the recording, you will hear the following statement: “…We don’t typically mess with your organizational structure because … Read more
