Some years ago (circa 2007) Yuval Yeret found a secret weapon for fighting Zombie Scrum: Kanban and Flow.
Read the complete article here: https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/kanbanflow-scrum-masters-not-so-secret-weapon
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Some years ago (circa 2007) Yuval Yeret found a secret weapon for fighting Zombie Scrum: Kanban and Flow.
Read the complete article here: https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/kanbanflow-scrum-masters-not-so-secret-weapon
We’ve all seen it. It’s quite an elaborate show with Scrum Masters, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Secret handshakes, a lot of artifacts, ceremonies, roles. The recent “broadway”-level productions include bigger pictures, more roles, artifacts.
Read the complete article here: https://www.agilesparks.com/blog/the-agile-theater/
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/
Mike Cohn realized that the perfect Scrum Master has been right in front of us for many years: Batman. Batman probably does not want to quit his crime-fighting ways and take the job of being a Scrum Master. But if he’s willing, there are five reasons why Batman would be the ideal Scrum Master.
Read the complete article here: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/five-reasons-why-batman-would-be-a-great-scrum-master
In this blog post, The Liberators shared the string of Liberating Structures they used for peer coaching sessions after
Read the complete post here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/peer-coaching-with-a-2-hour-string-of-liberating-structures-6b5a4ea46808
In this post Andrew Petro describes a proposed exercise for arriving at a Definition of Done. https://apetro.ghost.io/exercise-for-defining-done/
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.
Some great video’s about Leading to real Agility, Scrum Myths and Scrum in one minute can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBZPCl3-W1xpZ-FVr8wLGgA/videos
These questions have been copied from this article: https://management30.com/practice/star-behavioral-interview-questions/
Ask any Agile practitioner these days what Agile values are and he, most likely, will recite you some lines from the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. As him the final line of the said Manifesto and the result might be quite different, but I digress right in the first paragraph.
Ask a Scrum practitioner and he’ll give you 3-4, maybe 5, if he’s real good, values Scrum holds dear.
Next ask a different question, “What ARE the values? What are we talking about here?” And you’ll be lucky if you hear a half-baked off-the-cuff answer. Sometimes it’s just like, “well, values are values, those are what’s valuable.” Duh…
A quite interesting viewpoint and a crisp definition
Read the complete blog post here: https://scrum.courses/2019/04/02/values-giving-f/