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Team mission and purpose through Ecocycle planning
Saskia Vermeer-Ooms had the opportunity to facilitate a Team Mission workshop with one of her HR teams. She decided to use a string of Liberating Structures: 9 why’s – Ecocycle planning – What? So what? Now what?
Read all about her workshop here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/team-mission-purpose-through-ecocycle-planning-saskia-vermeer-ooms/
Facilitation Canvas
Anthony Boobier created the Facilitation Canvas as a tool to help facilitators prepare to run a session. He uses it as part of their ICAgile team facilitator course. The canvas is made up of 8 boxes, each with an associated set of prompt questions that I have found work well as a guide when filling it out.
Read all about it here: https://medium.com/path-pattern/the-retrospective-a-known-recipe-for-improvement-with-my-own-spice-da534c6628cc
The Retrospective: A known recipe for improvement — with my own spice
- Set the Stage
- Look Back
- Gather Data
- Generate Insight
- Decide What to Do
- Close the Retrospective
Read the complete post here: https://medium.com/path-pattern/the-retrospective-a-known-recipe-for-improvement-with-my-own-spice-da534c6628cc
Road to PSMIII
Sjoerd Nijland has written a nice series of blogposts about his road to PSMIII:
Definition of Scrum
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/definition-of-scrum-2d1f224256c
Empiricism: Transparency
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/empiricism-transparency-33adad8fbba2
Empiricism: Inspection, Part One
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/empiricism-inspection-part-one-cc4cd8bf98a8
Empiricism: Inspection, Part Two
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/empiricism-inspection-part-two-fafb785bd0c0
Empiricism: Adaptation
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/empiricism-adaptation-975f044a09b2
Scrum Values
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/scrum-values-1203813e0220
The Scrum Team
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-scrum-team-75b8004a4bc2
The Scrum Master
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-scrum-master-729e223f4b64
The Scrum Master’s responsibilities
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-scrum-masters-responsibilities-7ee05cae707e
The Product Owner
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-product-owner-6b7a63fef8fe
The Development Team
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-development-team-575d69054a9b
The Sprint
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-sprint-40d0ccc895f9
Sprint Cancellation
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/sprint-cancellation-c9a9c66e8c99
Scrum’s Artifacts
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/scrums-artifacts-6f07abfab11
The Product Backlog
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-product-backlog-7aec7daf844f
Estimation
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/estimation-103de626551e
The Dark Side of the Scrum Guide
Sjoerd Nijland has written a great blogpost about his journey to PSMIII and the nuances in words from the Scrum Guide. Such as:
- Framework, Methodology, Process, Techniques
- Event, Meeting
- Development
- Done, “Done”, Ready, Shippable, Releasable
- Self-organising
- Facilitate, Serve
- Visible, Open, Transparent, Accessible
- Titles vs Roles and Multi-disciplinary vs Cross-functional.
- When is a Sprint Backlog created? And is it considered
output of a Sprint Backlog? - When does the Sprint Planning take place?
Read the complete post here: https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-dark-side-of-the-scrum-guide-835b298f8140
Story Points Are Still About Effort
According to Mike Cohn story points are about time, read his complete explenation here: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/story-points-are-still-about-effort
Three reasons to stop talking about time and deadlines in Agile environments
Timelines and deadlines have always been tricky for software development. With the advent of Agile software development and Scrum, the may feel even trickier. In this post, Ziryan Salayi explores how you can move the conversation from time and deadlines to something that matters: delivering value to your customers faster.
Read the complete article here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/timelines-and-deadlines-how-to-handle-them-in-an-agile-environment-79f5946072ee
Ask A Professional Scrum Trainer – Martijn van Asseldonk – Answering Your Most Pressing Scrum Questions
In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Martijn van Asseldonk answered the pressing Scrum questions from the audience. Some of these questions included.
- How does Scrum work with virtual teams?
- How did you become an agile coach?
- How do you help leadership adopt the agile mindset?
- How do you measure teams?
- What’s the best way to do estimation?
Waar je een GOED Agile team aan herkent volgens 7 Agile experts – Van A naar Agile
Hoe herken je een goed Agile team? Dat is de vraag die we aan onze Agile experts @Ron Eringa, Jef Cumps, Inge Gorgon, Astrid Claessen, Jürgen De Smet, Yves Hanoulle en Nicole Belilos stellen.