My top ten of the meanest Scrum anti-patterns for the ScrumDayUkraine 2021, from the oversized Product Backlog to Hippo-ism to the lack of a product vision.
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Agile Transformations, the Good, the Bad and the UglyRally Software
The good, the bad and the ugly side of real life agile transformations. Wanda will share with you common challenges experienced by organisations during their agile journeys and provide you with key learnings that you can adopt within your own company.
Modernizing Development - The Road to Agility and DevOps at CompuwareAtlassian
Transforming a development organization from waterfall to agile is a big undertaking. Even larger when it’s a 40-year-old mainframe development organization. Having the vision for the future and the proper tools to enable that vision is essential. Join David Rizzo, an IT veteran, who led the transformation of Compuware from waterfall to agile and implementation of DevOps. You’ll see how Confluence was used to promote collaboration, in the office and in the field. How JIRA Software was used to track agile tasks and projects and how Bitbucket was utilized for handling source code. A modern DevOps toolchain is key to successful implementation. Using the Atlassian tools, Agile and DevOps were fully implemented across the entire organization.
Agile Transformations, the Good, the Bad and the UglyRally Software
The good, the bad and the ugly side of real life agile transformations. Wanda will share with you common challenges experienced by organisations during their agile journeys and provide you with key learnings that you can adopt within your own company.
Modernizing Development - The Road to Agility and DevOps at CompuwareAtlassian
Transforming a development organization from waterfall to agile is a big undertaking. Even larger when it’s a 40-year-old mainframe development organization. Having the vision for the future and the proper tools to enable that vision is essential. Join David Rizzo, an IT veteran, who led the transformation of Compuware from waterfall to agile and implementation of DevOps. You’ll see how Confluence was used to promote collaboration, in the office and in the field. How JIRA Software was used to track agile tasks and projects and how Bitbucket was utilized for handling source code. A modern DevOps toolchain is key to successful implementation. Using the Atlassian tools, Agile and DevOps were fully implemented across the entire organization.
Agile Project with Fixed Budget Scope and Deadline: How is it Possible?Vaidas Adomauskas
Two cases how Agile project management can be used for fixed contract projects.
Presentation for: Baltic Project Management Days 2014 conference: http://pmdays.eu
Vaidas Adomauskas
www.agilecoach.lt
How can a team of 65 developers build and rapidly ship a high-quality product with only six QA engineers? At Atlassian, we’ve introduced the Quality Assistance model that changes the developer QA mindset, and engages developers in exploratory testing so software is developed right the first time. After all, the cheapest time to fix a bug is before it's written. Join us as we walk through the theory, history, and practice of the model, while busting some of the myths about developers and QA. Reject the tradeoff of time, scope, and quality, and finally have your cake and eat it too.
DOES15 - Mike Bland - Pain Is Over, If You Want ItGene Kim
Mike Bland, Practice Director, 18F
Technology is always the easiest part of any problem. This was true of Google in 2005, when Mike Bland joined the Testing Grouplet’s effort to drive adoption of automated testing throughout a highly successful company as its organization and systems increased in complexity at an alarming and unstoppable rate. This was true in late 2013, when the Healthcare.gov crisis led to a stunningly successful recovery after private industry experts were given clearance to fix the technical issues. It is also true of the U.S federal government today, as Mike has joined 18F as part of the effort to modernize how software is developed and procured, and to steer the culture towards maximum transparency, autonomy and collaboration. This talk will outline Mike’s experiences at Google that shaped his outlook and honed his organizational skills, and describe his efforts to capitalize on the opportunity produced by the Healthcare.gov recovery to effect broad cultural change throughout the federal government.
The realities of working in an enterprise (distributed teams, multiple stakeholders, etc) present a series of challenges when trying to plan and scale agile development. Learn how Rosetta Stone knit together a dozen existing JIRA Agile boards into a coherent program-level view of their Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) release train using JIRA Portfolio – without sacrificing team autonomy.
Managing Projects/Releases using Lean/Agile techniquesYuval Yeret
Learn how to plan, manage and measure Projects/Releases using Lean/Agile techniques
Emphasis on visibility, estimation techniques, different approaches to commitments and buffering.
Product tank - from waterfall to dual track agileNir Gazit
In the last 10 years I have been working in several companies in different product roles, from Product manager to Chief Product Officer. During this time, I have experienced first hand the migration from Waterfall to Agile and then to Dual tracking agile.
Though Agile is becoming more common, many companies still fail to understand the essence of it and focus on the ritual or the technical aspects (continuous deployment, TDD, BDD, etc. ).
In this session I shared insights from my own experience about the Agile methodologies and highlighted the important things that each Product Manager should focus on, on his path to the great product.
The D Files: Debunking Myths About Distributed TeamsAgileDenver
We can’t do agile – teams need to be co-located!,” we often hear from naysayers about adopting agile in companies with remote workers. We know that distributed teams – be they off-shore, on-shore, near-shore, in-shore, whatever-shore – are the way many businesses operate today. How can we, as agilists in our organizations (as ScrumMasters, Product Owners, consultants, trainers, etc.), resolve the challenges that distributed teams face? This talk will review some of the common issues that distributed teams face and we’ll talk through real-world, practical solutions that I’ve used with my teams; techniques you can take back to your teams immediately.
Learn more about the scaled Agile Framework + scaling Agile. After a short introduction to several frameworks that aim to support the scaling of Agile (DAD, LeSS, SAFe®), this power point presentation from our webinar dives deeper into the details of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®). Find the truth behind the often cited sentence “As Scrum is to the Agile team, SAFe® is to the Agile enterprise.”
Talk - Le Framework Scrum en Entreprise : quels retours, quelles bonnes prati...Talent Agile @ Avanade
Partenaire Scrum.org depuis 2014, Avanade a mis en place dans son organisation un pôle Agile appelé Communauté de talent Agilité, Devops & Coaching. Cette équipe dédiée à l'agilité, animée par Philippe Puschmann certifié Professional Scrum Trainer Scrum.org, vous invite à discuter et partager autour de l'exercice de Scrum en Entreprise avec tous les enjeux allant de l'adoption, la gestion du changement, les principes d'excellence technique, l'outillage et bien évidemment la mise en place de l'Agile à l'échelle ou Scrum@Scale pour les grands projets. Un panel d'experts sera réuni pour étayer les réponses de retours d'expérience projet.
Be ready with your questions and Join our next webinar to know:
- Where software testing began
- Early software testing methodology
- The rise of agile testing
- Recent testing trends
- The future of testing and Testers
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The Agile and Open Source Way (AgileTour Brussels)Alexis Monville
Slides from AgileTour Brussels presentation on September 27th, 2013. More information on AgileTour Brussels: http://atbru.be/
The Agile and Open Source Way is the book for everyone who wants to scale agile in multiple distributed teams. This book will also help you to collaborate upstream with Open Source projects.
Whether you want to improve interactions with other teams inside or outside your company, or just interested in scaling from more than one team, you will find in this publication the information you need, illustrated by a real case.
http://www.the-agile-and-open-source-way.com/
Agile Project with Fixed Budget Scope and Deadline: How is it Possible?Vaidas Adomauskas
Two cases how Agile project management can be used for fixed contract projects.
Presentation for: Baltic Project Management Days 2014 conference: http://pmdays.eu
Vaidas Adomauskas
www.agilecoach.lt
How can a team of 65 developers build and rapidly ship a high-quality product with only six QA engineers? At Atlassian, we’ve introduced the Quality Assistance model that changes the developer QA mindset, and engages developers in exploratory testing so software is developed right the first time. After all, the cheapest time to fix a bug is before it's written. Join us as we walk through the theory, history, and practice of the model, while busting some of the myths about developers and QA. Reject the tradeoff of time, scope, and quality, and finally have your cake and eat it too.
DOES15 - Mike Bland - Pain Is Over, If You Want ItGene Kim
Mike Bland, Practice Director, 18F
Technology is always the easiest part of any problem. This was true of Google in 2005, when Mike Bland joined the Testing Grouplet’s effort to drive adoption of automated testing throughout a highly successful company as its organization and systems increased in complexity at an alarming and unstoppable rate. This was true in late 2013, when the Healthcare.gov crisis led to a stunningly successful recovery after private industry experts were given clearance to fix the technical issues. It is also true of the U.S federal government today, as Mike has joined 18F as part of the effort to modernize how software is developed and procured, and to steer the culture towards maximum transparency, autonomy and collaboration. This talk will outline Mike’s experiences at Google that shaped his outlook and honed his organizational skills, and describe his efforts to capitalize on the opportunity produced by the Healthcare.gov recovery to effect broad cultural change throughout the federal government.
The realities of working in an enterprise (distributed teams, multiple stakeholders, etc) present a series of challenges when trying to plan and scale agile development. Learn how Rosetta Stone knit together a dozen existing JIRA Agile boards into a coherent program-level view of their Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) release train using JIRA Portfolio – without sacrificing team autonomy.
Managing Projects/Releases using Lean/Agile techniquesYuval Yeret
Learn how to plan, manage and measure Projects/Releases using Lean/Agile techniques
Emphasis on visibility, estimation techniques, different approaches to commitments and buffering.
Product tank - from waterfall to dual track agileNir Gazit
In the last 10 years I have been working in several companies in different product roles, from Product manager to Chief Product Officer. During this time, I have experienced first hand the migration from Waterfall to Agile and then to Dual tracking agile.
Though Agile is becoming more common, many companies still fail to understand the essence of it and focus on the ritual or the technical aspects (continuous deployment, TDD, BDD, etc. ).
In this session I shared insights from my own experience about the Agile methodologies and highlighted the important things that each Product Manager should focus on, on his path to the great product.
The D Files: Debunking Myths About Distributed TeamsAgileDenver
We can’t do agile – teams need to be co-located!,” we often hear from naysayers about adopting agile in companies with remote workers. We know that distributed teams – be they off-shore, on-shore, near-shore, in-shore, whatever-shore – are the way many businesses operate today. How can we, as agilists in our organizations (as ScrumMasters, Product Owners, consultants, trainers, etc.), resolve the challenges that distributed teams face? This talk will review some of the common issues that distributed teams face and we’ll talk through real-world, practical solutions that I’ve used with my teams; techniques you can take back to your teams immediately.
Learn more about the scaled Agile Framework + scaling Agile. After a short introduction to several frameworks that aim to support the scaling of Agile (DAD, LeSS, SAFe®), this power point presentation from our webinar dives deeper into the details of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®). Find the truth behind the often cited sentence “As Scrum is to the Agile team, SAFe® is to the Agile enterprise.”
Talk - Le Framework Scrum en Entreprise : quels retours, quelles bonnes prati...Talent Agile @ Avanade
Partenaire Scrum.org depuis 2014, Avanade a mis en place dans son organisation un pôle Agile appelé Communauté de talent Agilité, Devops & Coaching. Cette équipe dédiée à l'agilité, animée par Philippe Puschmann certifié Professional Scrum Trainer Scrum.org, vous invite à discuter et partager autour de l'exercice de Scrum en Entreprise avec tous les enjeux allant de l'adoption, la gestion du changement, les principes d'excellence technique, l'outillage et bien évidemment la mise en place de l'Agile à l'échelle ou Scrum@Scale pour les grands projets. Un panel d'experts sera réuni pour étayer les réponses de retours d'expérience projet.
Be ready with your questions and Join our next webinar to know:
- Where software testing began
- Early software testing methodology
- The rise of agile testing
- Recent testing trends
- The future of testing and Testers
============== Follow us ==============
Website: http://xpdays.org
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xpdays
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/xpdaysorg
The Agile and Open Source Way (AgileTour Brussels)Alexis Monville
Slides from AgileTour Brussels presentation on September 27th, 2013. More information on AgileTour Brussels: http://atbru.be/
The Agile and Open Source Way is the book for everyone who wants to scale agile in multiple distributed teams. This book will also help you to collaborate upstream with Open Source projects.
Whether you want to improve interactions with other teams inside or outside your company, or just interested in scaling from more than one team, you will find in this publication the information you need, illustrated by a real case.
http://www.the-agile-and-open-source-way.com/
Growing a user group with your competitors: a story from the Atlassian User G...Tom Moors
The Atlassian Belgium User Group (www.abug.be) started in January 2011. In this presentation, you will learn our small history and some things we've learned to organise sessions and make sure neutrality is key in every action we do.
Adaptive Content equals Architecture plus Process minus Reality [Noz Urbina, ...Noz Urbina
Adaptive content is one of the most powerful and critical concepts of this decade. It is an attempt to address a never-before-seen diversity of content contexts and platforms, as well as sky-high user expectations. We are in an age where our smartphones are already starting to bore us. What were head-spinning miracles of science and technology less than three years ago “lack innovation” today. With customers assimilating new technologies into their lives and resetting expectations at this speed, the pressure to provide innovative, differentiating and strategically significant content experience is higher than ever. New platforms and interface paradigms are just around the corner. Adaptive content promises to help us address these challenges, but it still takes organisations years to adapt themselves. Noz Urbina focuses on how content architecture and process need to be altered for adaptive content, and what to do when reality sets in.
Open World Forum - The Agile and Open Source WayAlexis Monville
Slides from Open World Forum 2013 (#OWF13)
The Agile and Open Source Way is the book for everyone who wants to scale agile in multiple distributed teams. This book will also help you to collaborate upstream with Open Source projects.
Whether you want to improve interactions with other teams inside or outside your company, or just interested in scaling from more than one team, you will find in this publication the information you need, illustrated by a real case.
http://www.the-agile-and-open-source-way.com/
This is the slide deck for a presentation I gave while a student at the University of Houston Downtown, probably some time in 2007. I tried to explain to my classmates the advantages of open source software in business. I just came across this file on an old thumb drive and figured I should upload it somewhere so it hopefully hangs around forever. will.willis@gmail.com
Scrum with value streams - Can you finally get rid of waterfall thinking?Tasktop
Increasingly, DevOps is encouraging organizations to think holistically about the value streams of delivery. Make work visible and look to reduce waste. But agile and Scrum has taught us that complex problems require teams to self-organize, to 'scrum' to make progress. Does that mean that the value streams are continually changing? Does that mean that when you introduce value streams you remove the ability of the Scrum team to self-organize?
In this talk, Dave West Product Owner and CEO of Scrum.org and Mik Kersten CEO of Tasktop discuss the challenges of introducing value streams to a Scrum world and how you can balance flexibility with the structure to enable better flow and deliver more value to customers. They will discuss how to avoid Value-Waterfall-Stream to make sure your stream doesn't become a waterfall and provide a list of potential warning signs for when the process of value streams has become a way of re-introducing traditional waterfall thinking to your product delivery process.
LavaCon 2017 - DITA: Start Small, Grow Big Using Open Source ToolsJack Molisani
You’re considering using DITA and would like to try it out without incurring significant upfront costs, but also keeping your options open longer-term. Where do you start? How will you approach the challenges of content creation, content management, and publishing your content? There are in fact plenty of options. The good news is that XML and DITA are open standards. This has led to a healthy ecosystem with quality commercial and inter-operable open source tools, that do away with vendor lock-in and keep operating costs down. We will discuss the three challenges, show an example of how end-to-end solutions can be built based upon Git and other open source tools. In fact, the result may be better than you’d expect.
My observations on a journey from UML and Rational Unified Process (RUP) through the lands of Scrum, Kanban, DevOps and Cloud SaaS with various detours via "fragile" settlements along the path...
(University guest talk)
The Big Picture of Agile: How to Pitch the Agile Mindset to StakeholdersStefan Wolpers
Let’s face it: While your enthusiasm for the big picture of agile practices is admirable, your stakeholders will most likely be moved by one thought only at the beginning of the transition: “What’s in for me? How will I now have my requirements delivered?”.
Read on and learn about one way how to kick-off the transition to a learning organization by pitching a simplified version the big picture of agile practices to your stakeholders first.
Toyota Kata Coaching for Agile Teams & TransformationsStefan Wolpers
Today, we see a slowly accelerating movement in business management towards coaching. Even the Harvard Business Review and McKinsey now acknowledge that coaching is the best approach to managing and growing employees.
After decades of Agile, we also strongly understand that coaching is the preferred method of engagement at all organizational levels. There’s a wide variety of coaching options used in Agile today: GROW, OSKAR, ACL, STEPPA, etc.
Let’s add a technique from Toyota, whose attitudes and methods are embedded in our Agile practices in many ways. It’s called Toyota Kata Coaching. And please don’t be fooled by its deceptive simplicity. I think it’s the best coaching method for Agile. Join this webinar to learn about Kata & see if you agree. Even if you don’t, think about the Kata as another coaching tool for your Scrum Master or Agile Coaching collection.
Your team is supposed to use an agile approach, such as Scrum.
But you have a years-long backlog, your standups are individual status reports, and you’re still multitasking. You and your team members wish you had the chance to do great work, but this feels a lot like an “agile” death march. There’s a reason you feel that way. You’re using fake agility—a waterfall lifecycle masquerading as an agile approach. Worse, fake agility is the norm in our industry.
Instead, you can assess your culture, project, and product risks to select a different approach. That will allow you to choose how to collaborate so you can iterate over features and when to deliver value. When you do, you are more likely to discover actual agility and an easier way to work.
Now, there is light at the end of the tunnel; let's delve into Tackling Fake Agility with Johanna Rothman!
Hands-on Agile #59: “Agile” Does Not Work for You? Tackling Fake Agility w/ J...Stefan Wolpers
ABSTRACT
Your team is supposed to use an agile approach, such as Scrum. But you have a years-long backlog, your standups are individual status reports, and you’re still multitasking. You and your team members wish you had the chance to do great work, but this feels a lot like an “agile” death march.
There’s a reason you feel that way. You’re using fake agility—a waterfall lifecycle masquerading as an agile approach. Worse, fake agility is the norm in our industry.
No one has to work that way.
Instead, you can assess your culture, project, and product risks to select a different approach. That will allow you to choose how to collaborate so you can iterate over features and when to deliver value. When you do, you are more likely to discover actual agility and an easier way to work.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Have a clear understanding of the different lifecycles and when to use each.
Be able to assess your project, product, and portfolio risks.
Know how to customize a lifecycle based on the unique culture and requirements of the team.
How to create shorter feedback loops in any lifecycle for product success.
MEET JOHANNA
“People know me as the “Pragmatic Manager.” I offer frank advice—often with a little humor—for your tough problems. I help leaders and managers see and do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, you can decide how to adapt your product development, always focusing on the business outcomes you need.
My philosophy is that people want to do a good job. They don't always know what they are supposed to do, nor how to do it.”
How To Make Your Plans Suck Less — Maarten Dalmijn at the 57th Hands-on Agile...Stefan Wolpers
Abstract: Humble Planning: How To Make Your Plans Suck Less
In this talk, Maarten will introduce the concept of humble planning and why it's crucial for succeeding with an Agile way of working and building products of exceptional value.
When faced with uncertainty, risk, and complexity, our natural response is to focus on what we know and to spend more time talking, analyzing, planning, and predicting. As a result, our plans become filled with speculation and rooted in our imagination. Our plans as an anchor stifle the ability to respond to changes. We become locked into plans that prevent collaboration, learning, and discovery.
In this talk, Maarten will show why instead of starting with overconfident plans, we should start with humble plans: How can we encourage our teams to begin with humble plans and what do teams need to adapt their plans as they discover and learn what’s necessary while doing the work?
The talk will cover concepts like friction, the three gaps model of Bungay, intent, intent-based leadership, humble planning, sprint goals, the fog of beforehand, and the fog of speculation.
Meet Maarten Dalmijn
Maarten Dalmijn is a consultant, speaker, and trainer at Dalmijn Consulting. He is the author of the book Driving Value with Sprint Goals.
Maarten helps teams to beat the feature factory all over the world. Millions of practitioners have read his best-practice articles on Agile, Scrum, and Product Management. He specializes in helping companies to build empowered teams that can discover better ways of delivering value.
Maarten is a frequent speaker at Fortune 500 companies and international industry conferences. He has worked with many award-winning start-ups and scale-ups. He is an ambassador and editor at Serious Scrum, the largest Scrum publication on Medium.
(1) Abstract: Designing Agile Ecosystems with Org Topologies™
Over the past decade, heavyweight methods like SAFe® have dominated the agile landscape, offering tools for “scaling agile.” Yet questions arise about their prescriptive nature and genuine agility.
Framework-agnostic approaches like Team Topologies™ and unFix™ have recently emerged, offering more flexible, “buffet-style” organizational design choices. However, they demand a deep understanding of organizational design, systems thinking, and queuing theory to avoid pitfalls.
Org Topologies™ bridges the gap between rigid frameworks and DIY methods by emphasizing ecosystems—interconnected organizational parts that exhibit specific behaviors. Co-creators Alexey Krivitsky and Roland Flemm will introduce a method to navigate and improve organizational ecosystems for agility.
(2) Meet Alexey Krivitsky
Alexey Krivitsky, a pioneer Scrum Master in Ukraine since 2005, is a CST, CEC, and organizational agility coach. He’s a notable conference producer and speaker and created the lego4scrum game.
(3) Meet Roland Flemm
Roland Flemm transitioned from a 20-year developer career to a Scrum Master in 2009, specializing in large-scale Scrum consultations from 2015. An active conference speaker, he created the Koos Coach comics and “Elements of Scrum” learning cards.
Overcoming Common Product Backlog Management Traps — David Pereira at the 54....Stefan Wolpers
How teams manage their Product Backlog often makes or breaks their value creation chances. Poor backlog management leads to a feature factory trap, while a mindful strategy enables the team to drive value steadily.
Over the years, David has identified common traps teams often face and learned how to overcome them the hard way. Let David help you identify such challenges and help you overcome them, too.
Overcoming Common Product Backlog Traps — Hands-on Agile 54 w/ David PereiraStefan Wolpers
How teams manage their Product Backlog often makes or breaks their value creation chances. Poor backlog management leads to a feature factory trap, while a mindful strategy enables the team to drive value steadily.
Over the years, David has identified common traps teams often face and learned how to overcome them the hard way. Let David help you identify such challenges and help you overcome them, too.
David is a passionate Product Leader with over ten years of product management experience. Over the last few years, he led many product teams in successful endeavors. His biggest fear is the comfort zone. His motto is the faster we learn, the faster we succeed.
He has been working as a Product Leader. He’s focused on coaching teams to deliver the highest value for their customers. One of his hobbies is writing articles. He shares his ideas on Substack and loves learning from everyone.
Join the Hands-on Agile Meetup here: https://www.meetup.com/hands-on-agile-berlin-chapter-meetup/
Bob Galen: An Agile Coaches’ Guide to Storytelling — Hands-on-Agile #53Stefan Wolpers
“I’m going to tell you a story.
I was coaching an agile coach who lamented that they weren’t connecting with their coaching client, in this case, a development manager. I asked them to share a typical coaching conversation, and they spoke about a series of questions they asked that essentially went unanswered—leaving them and the client quite frustrated. I asked them what other coaching techniques they had tried, and it boiled down to only coaching stances and only open-ended questions.
I suggested they experiment with weaving some stories into their coaching conversations. Personal stories, lesson-learned stories, teaching stories, purpose or vision stories, and relationship or connection-building stories. I spoke to them about sharing their knowledge and wisdom with the client via story, not dominating the conversation but augmenting it, and using the story as a backdrop to their questions and explorations with the client.
They later told me that this small change significantly impacted their coaching after a bit of practice. This talk is about bringing the power of Storytelling INTO your agile coaching and discovering the magic of the Story. Now, please share this story with others, and I hope to see you in the talk…”
Engage the Agile Fluency® Model with Diana Larsen — Hands-on Agile #46Stefan Wolpers
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On October 12, 2022, agile innovator Diana Larsen delved into the Agile Fluency® Model. After a short introduction to the model, we shifted to an Ask-Me-Anything-style discussion of the groundbreaking view of agile and teams.
James Shore: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale — Hands-on Agile #45Stefan Wolpers
How can multiple teams work together on a single product? The common wisdom is to carefully align teams and responsibilities to create autonomous teams. But, invariably, this approach eventually runs into cross-team bottlenecks, challenges aligning responsibilities to teams, and difficulties creating cross-functional teams.
Fluid Scaling Technology, or FAST, is an innovative new approach that solves these problems. It uses frequent team self-selection to prevent bottlenecks, share knowledge amongst teams, and ensure the right people are working on the right things. It’s simple and lightweight.
During the 45th Hands-on Agile meetup, James Shore shared his experiences with scaling Agile: first with traditional approaches and, more recently, with FAST. Learn in about an hour what works, what doesn’t, and how you can try FAST in your organization.
Hands-on Agile #19: The Successful Scrum MasterStefan Wolpers
The 19th Hands-on Agile meetup will address what makes a Scrum Master or agile coach successful.
Collaboratively, we will use a Liberating Structures string to unearth and share our learnings on how to move forward as individuals as well as professionals.
Scrum Master Career 2020 — Using Ecocycle Planning to Identify OpportunitiesStefan Wolpers
Scrum Master career 2020: Last week, about 30 members of the Hands-on Agile community in Berlin came together to identify opportunities of personal and professional growth for the coming year, using Liberating Structures’ Ecocyle Planning in the process.
Liberating Structures for Scrum: The Sprint ReviewStefan Wolpers
The 16th Hands-on Agile meetup continues exploring Liberating Structures for Scrum events. This time, we address the Sprint Review.
Liberating Structures cover a set of easy to learn, yet powerful ways to collaborate as a team—even as a large team—, overcoming traditional communications approaches like presentations, managed discussions, or another disorganized brainstorming at which the loudest participants tend to prevail.
Throughout the coming months, we will create exciting new ways how to improve classic Scrum events like the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Review, or the Sprint Retrospective. Moreover, we will use Liberating Structures for difficult challenges that agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners face, for example, reviewing the existing product design process.
Liberating Structures for Scrum: The Daily ScrumStefan Wolpers
The 15th Hands-on Agile meetup continues exploring Liberating Structures for Scrum events. This time, we address the Daily Scrum.
Liberating Structures cover a set of easy to learn, yet powerful ways to collaborate as a team—even as a large team—, overcoming traditional communications approaches like presentations, managed discussions, or another disorganized brainstorming at which the loudest participants tend to prevail.
Throughout the coming months, we will create exciting new ways how to improve classic Scrum events like the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Review, or the Sprint Retrospective. Moreover, we will use Liberating Structures for difficult challenges that agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners face, for example, reviewing the existing product design process.
Hands-on Agile: Liberating Structures for Scrum: The Sprint RetrospectiveStefan Wolpers
The twelveth Hands-on Agile meetup continues exploring Liberating Structures for Scrum events.
Liberating Structures cover a set of easy to learn, yet powerful ways to collaborate as a team—even as a large team—, overcoming traditional communications approaches like presentations, managed discussions, or another disorganized brainstorming where the loudest participants tend to prevail.
Throughout the coming months, we will create exciting new ways how to improve classic Scrum events like the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Review or the Sprint Retrospective. Moreover, we will use Liberating Structures for difficult challenges that agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners face, for example, reviewing the existing product design process.
This second meetup of the “Liberating Structures for Scrum” series will address the Sprint Retrospective.
There is a SlideShare bug that prevented the first slide from being displayed completely — the word “Retrospective” is not shown. My apology!
This Hands-on Agile webinar covers twelve anti-patterns of the sprint retrospective—from #NoRetro to the dispensable buffer to UNSMART action items to a missing product owner.
This Hands-on Agile mini-series addresses 12 familiar Scrum Sprint Review anti-patterns: death by PowerPoint to side-gigs to none of the stakeholders cares to attend.
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This Hands-on Agile mini-series addresses 12 familiar Scrum Master anti-patterns: from the agile manager to the team secretary to dogmatism.
Let us start with a short refresher from the Scrum Guide. According to it, the “Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide. Scrum Masters do this by helping everyone understand the theory, practices, rules, and values of Scrum. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team.” Finally, the “Scrum Master helps those outside the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren’t. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.”
(1) The first Scrum Master anti-pattern covers the agile manager. Self-organization does not mean the absence of management: why handle pay-role as a Scrum Team? Outsourcing of tasks to the management is hence common. However, Scrum is by all means not about exercising command & control; the Scrum master is not a supervisor.
(2) The second Scrum Master anti-pattern covers the Scrum team secretary and Scrum parents. The Scrum parent is generally shielding the team from the cold and cruel world, creating a safe & happy agile bubble.
(3) The third Scrum Master anti-pattern covers the imposter. Dolla, dolla, bill ya'll—the Scrum Master imposter believes that this agile/scrum thingy is a fad—how hard can it be, the Scrum Guide is just 17 pages.
(4) The fourth Scrum Master anti-pattern covers Scrum dogmatism. The Scrum Master enjoys teaching (and never leaves the Shu-phase).
(5) The fifth Scrum Master anti-pattern covers failing at the capacity game. The Scrum master does not address the necessity of slack time by fighting the push for 100% utilization.
(6) The sixth Scrum Master anti-pattern covers the flow undermining Scrum Master. The Scrum Master allows stakeholders to disrupt the flow of the development team during the sprint.
(7) The seventh Scrum Master anti-pattern covers the Scrum Master with a metrics fetish, pursuing flawed metrics. The Scrum Master keeps track of individual performance metrics such as story points per developer per sprint.
(8) The eighth Scrum Master anti-pattern covers the Scrum Master ignoring Scrum values.
(9) The ninth Scrum Master anti-pattern covers the skipped Retrospective. All Scrum events are essential for a team’s success—you cannot skip any event.
(10) The tenth Scrum Master anti-pattern covers the Groundhog-Day retrospective. The retrospective never changes in composition, venue, or length. In this case that the team will likely revisit the same issues over and over again—it’s groundhog day without the happy ending, though.
(SUMMARY) The last chapter summarizes my dirty dozen of Scrum Master anti-patterns: from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself.
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