Abstract: In Scrum a Product Owner can be described as a “value maximizer”…but how is value calculated? In this presentation we consider how empiricism ought to underpin any assessment, and at how the discipline of “Innovation Accounting” can challenge predictive value assumptions.
Sprint Review Anti Patterns and How to Overcome Them
If your Sprint Review looks like this, you are doing it wrong:
- Approval Session
- Development team presentation
- Closed feedback bubble
Signs you are doing it right:
- Product Owner owns the event
- Who is who? Everybody is engaged.
- It provides valuable feedback
- It gives the direction where we want to move to
- It can give insight in likely completion dates
Share novel ideas and creative solutions with ‘Shift & Share’ and ‘Caravan’
Shift & Share is a Liberating Structure that helps spread novelty across groups and functions. Innovators showcase their ideas or products and gather meaningful feedback in short cycles. In one hour or less it’s possible to include everyone in a large group and make every voice heard in a structured, constructive way.
Read about it in this article: https://medium.com/the-liberators/liberating-structures-are-33-microstructures-that-allow-you-to-unleash-and-involve-everyone-in-a-9f55c2cdab56
Servant Leadership 101: The 4 V’s to Create a Strong Foundation
Servant-leaders must create a strong foundation that helps people feel empowered to take action, enables them to move forward in a common direction despite uncertainty, and to feel inspired and resourceful during challenging times
The 4 V’s can help you establish this strong foundation:
- Vision – “What do we want?”
- Values – “What is important about that?”
- Value – “What value are we creating? What outcomes indicate we are succeeding?”
- Validation – “How will we measure valuable outcomes? How will we validate our assumptions about value?”
Read the complete article here: https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/servant-leadership-101-4-vs-create-strong-foundation
How to Define and Describe an Organization
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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.
Liberating Strategy
Liberating Strategy begins and ends with Liberating Structures (LS). They are simple rules that make it possible to include and engage every voice in shaping the future and strategy. LS can be used to not only create a different kind of strategy but also to transform the whole process of strategy-making.
Read the complete article by Keith McCandless and Johannes Schartau here: https://medium.com/@keithmccandless/liberating-strategy-6fda41f6c1
Liberating Structures Strings
On the following Trello Board you can find all Liberating Structure Strings used during the LS Meetup: https://trello.com/b/RRgrkb29/liberating-structures-strings