Month: September 2019

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Truth, Lies, and Scrum

is a great article from Zach Bonaker in which he describes that:

  • Scrum is not equal to Agile;
  • Your context and culture dictates Scrum’s effectiveness;
  • Your organization will likely need a new structure to use Scrum;
  • The Scrum Guide is not a straw-man document;
  • Daily Scrum is a feedback loop.
  • Scrum Master is not a role “in agile”;
  • Scrum Masters are not a sign or assessment of “maturity”.
  • User stories are not part of Scrum;
  • The outcome of the Sprint Review is an updated product backlog;
  • Velocity is not part of Scrum;
  • If retrospectives have no organizational impact, you’re not doing Scrum;
  • Teams are the heart of Scrum, but a bunch of people with the same boss are not necessarily a team;

Read the complete article here: https://agileoutloud.wordpress.com/2019/07/16/truth-lies-and-scrum/

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Story Point Estimates Are Best Thought of as Ranges

When estimating with story points, most teams use a predefined set of values that doesn’t include every possible number.

One of the questions I often get about story points is what to do if you can’t decide whether a particular product backlog item should be an 8 or a 13 (or a 3 and a 5). Part of the answer can be found by thinking about water buckets.

Suppose you have 10 liters of water you need to store. You also have an 8-liter bucket and a 13-liter bucket.

Which bucket would you store the water in?

The 13-liter bucket, right? Ten liters of water doesn’t fit in an 8-liter bucket. The water would overflow and spill out.

Extrapolating further, you’d use the 13-liter bucket for all amounts of water from 9 liters through 13 liters. Once you hit 14 liters, though, you’d once again need a bigger bucket.

And so it is with the values you choose to use when estimating stories. Think of each value as a bucket. A value bucket is used for all stories between that value and the next lower value.

Read the complet blogpost here: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/story-point-estimates-are-best-thought-of-as-ranges

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Deze 10 principes helpen je meer uit je interacties te halen

Of je nu de grote baas bent bij een multinational of net bent begonnen met je eerste serieuze baan, voor iedereen geldt: jouw succes in het leven is grotendeels afhankelijk van de interacties met de mensen om je heen. Hoe meer je uit die interacties haalt, hoe meer jij uit het leven haalt. Lijkt dat je wat? Dan vind je in de tien principes achter Liberating Structures een bijzonder effectieve methode om dat voor elkaar te krijgen.

  1. Betrek en activeer iedereen
  2. Respecteer anderen en wat anderen te zeggen hebben
  3. Bouw vertrouwen op terwijl je bezig bent
  4. Leer van je fouten
  5. Gebruik de groepsdynamiek om jezelf beter te leren kennen
  6. Benadruk vrijheid en verantwoordelijkheid
  7. Focus je op wat wél mogelijk is
  8. Omarm creatieve destructie
  9. Serieus spelen: Spelenderwijs ontdekken
  10. Start nooit zonder duidelijk doel

Lees het volledige artikel van Ruben Klerkx hier: https://thecreatorscompany.com/blogs/deze-10-principes-helpen-je-meer-uit-je-interacties-te-halen/