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Liberating Structures and (distributed) Scrum Events

For an upcoming meetup I’m preparing a session on how to use LS for Scrum Events and especially events where the participants are distributed and joining the event remotely.

Here’s a brief overview of some LS that can be used for the different Scrum events. I’ve marked all structures with an * that I’ve used myself in a distributed setting.

Refinement / Planning

Daily Scrum

Sprint Review

Sprint Retrospective

On the liberating Structures website you can find a design checklist for virtual meetings. Since the link is currently no longer working, you can find the document here:

DESIGN of LIBERATEDVIRTUALMEETINGS v2Download

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How to Solve Any Problem in 3 Steps Using the Zombie Retrospective

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Facing challenges is an inevitable part of life, but how we deal with them can make a big difference. When problems show up, it’s important to focus on the things that unite us—it’s better to have a common enemy than fight internally. Experience in complex software development has taught me that it’s crucial to stop, think and act at regular intervals.

Read the complete article here: https://devops.com/how-to-solve-any-problem-in-3-steps-using-the-zombie-retrospective/

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Innovation Accounting in Scrum

Innovation Accounting in Scrum

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.

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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

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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.

Caravan is an exciting twist on Shift & Share that blends it with the Liberating Structure Wise Crowds. It’s especially useful for gaining clarity on a challenge or — maybe most important for Scrum Teams — to receive useful feedback on new features and product increments during multi-team Sprint Reviews.

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

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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

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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

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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?