Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Thanks to everyone who attended my workshop on the Scrum Bestiary today at Agile 2009. You can download the deck here. It comes with speaker notes so isn’t completely incomprehensible. The original Scrum Bestiary can was written up as a series of blog posts and summarized ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Events, Scrum
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
In a somewhat unusual turn of events I’ve actually found the time to write my decks for Agile 2009 early this year. This never happens! I invariably arrive at the venue with a 90% complete deck and fill in the blanks as I talk to attendees. However, this ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Distributed teams, Events, Scrum
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
The deadline for submissions to Agile 2009 rapidly approaches! It’s Feb 13th. We’re busy reviewing submissions for the Agile & Organizational Culture stage and I’m sure the other stages are busy too. If you’re not planning on giving a talk you can still attend the ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
The session deadline for this year is Feb 13th. This year it’s in Chicago on August 24-28.
The conference organizers are looking for more submissions (I'm a reviewer for the Culture Stage). If you would like to present the web site has a page on how to propose a session.
I have ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
What do managers do when their teams are using Scrum or some other agile approach to software development? The notion of managers as facilitators was really brought home to me by Diana Larsen in a talk at Agile 2007. Daily standup is one of the first places the rubber meets ...
Tags: agile, Proven practices, Scrum
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Who make the best Scrum Masters? First off there are several roles that make a risky proposition for Scrum Master...
Tags: Scrum
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
This is not a set of roles on your scrum team. It's a taxonomy of behaviors that could apply to anyone on your team regardless of the role they may be filling. Examples of this include:
Product owners who behave like Cows or even Seagulls as they rush about juggling multiple ...
Tags: agile, Scrum
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Rounding out the Scrum Bestiary with its original two protagonists... the pig and now the chicken. Both the pig and the chicken come from Jeff Sutherland's original sketch about who does what in a Scrum standup meeting.
Chicken's don't contribute to your team's goals in any way. They're hangers on who ...
Tags: agile, Scrum
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Rounding out the Scrum Bestiary with its original two protagonists... the chicken and now the pig. Both the pig and the chicken come from Jeff Sutherland's original sketch about who does what in a Scrum daily standup meeting.
Pigs are the heart of Scrum. They're the ones who actually do all ...
Tags: agile, Scrum
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
So building on my post from earlier this week - Scrum and Supporting Your Existing Products -and reflecting on an interesting thread I've been following here at Microsoft. I thought I'd write a bit about how to handle bugs on your current product development.
"We're doing Scrum but we have a ...
Tags: Proven practices, Scrum
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