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
How we do involve stakeholders?
One of the biggest challenges for Product Owners is to manage stakeholders. Often, there are many of them. And they all have different needs, requirements, and levels of involvement. How do you manage this?
The Stakeholder Map (PDF) is a simple tool that creates transparency and strategies. Print out a large version of the PDF and introduce it to your Scrum Team. Work together to identify all potential stakeholders (or groups) and write them on stickies. Distribute the stakeholders across the quadrants based on their level of influence over the product and their interest in what you are working on. Based on the distribution that emerges, you can devise strategies on how to best involve them:
- Latents: Keep them up-to-date with frequent newsletters or videos and involve them when you need their input;
- Apathetics: Its usually enough to keep this group up-to-date with periodic newsletters or pull-based information (like a website or page on your intranet);
- Promoters: You want to involve this group as extensively as possible. Invite them to your Sprint Reviews, involve them during Refinement and meet with them frequently to re-order the Product Backlog;
- Defenders: These are your biggest fans. Involve them actively by inviting them to your Sprint Reviews. Encourage the Development Team to seek out these people to validate assumptions about what you’re developing;
The stakeholders on the right are the most important at the moment, so focus the bulk of your time and energy on them. However, if you meet the needs of the stakeholders on the left, you can shift them to the right as they become more interested in your product.
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Agile retrospectives made easy
Found this online tool, need to give it a try: https://www.retrium.com/
Bootstrapping a Working Agreement for the Agile Team
Bootstrapping a Working Agreement for the Agile Team is a simple, yet powerful practice every team should have! Read about it here: https://blog.crisp.se/2018/12/05/jimmyjanlen/bootstrapping-a-working-agreement-for-the-agile-team
How to introduce myself as a Scrum Master in an existing team?
Some questions you could ask yourself are:
- Does the team know Agile, the Scrum framework?
- What is the composition of the team?
- What motivates the members?
- What are the common goals of the team?
- How about the values of the team?
- Is there a history that we need to know before joining the team?
- Would you start with a kick off / retrospective where the team would explain their pains and where we could discuss
way of working?
Introduction to Scrum
But what is the Scrum methodology, and how does it work? This introduction to Scrum PPT will explore just that. Whether you’re a manager, programmer, tester, product owner, or just want to improve product delivery, check out these Scrum presentations by Certified Scrum Trainer and author Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software. Source: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/presentations/an-introduction-to-scrum
Addicted to Hopium – Throughput
The complete review of Kevin Kohl’s Addicted to Hopium – Throughput: Using the DVA Business Process to Break the Guesswork Habit by Jack Vinson can be found here: https://www.jackvinson.com/blog/2018/10/12/addicted-to-hopium-throughput.
The Liberators build their website
The Liberators build their new website with a Scrum Team within a week. In these posts and videos, they share what they’ve learned about flow and releasing more often – with examples that are as real-life as imaginable 🙂
Read the complete articles here:
https://medium.com/the-liberators/how-we-built-theliberators-com-incrementally-93d5095db4ab