Agile Archive – Page 36 – Just a site where I archive interesting reads I've encountered online

October 31, 2018October 31, 2018

9 Signs You’re Struggling with Agile Adoption

Your team adopted Agile to get better—to accelerate delivery and improve performance—but now that you’ve been at it for a few months, it doesn’t feel like it’s fulfilling the promise. You’re following the practices. You’ve got the routine down. You expected to transform to a new way of working, but it’s starting to feel like Agile is just a set of handcuffs, not the solution you were looking for.

Read the complete article here: https://www.excella.com/insights/9-signs-youre-struggling-with-agile-adoption

October 30, 2018November 1, 2018

Facilitation Toolbox

A nice Trello board from The Liberators that holds a lot of cool ideas to help you facilitate as a Scrum Master. Find it here: https://trello.com/b/oC3oBEvY/facilitation-toolbox

October 30, 2018October 30, 2018

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.

October 29, 2018November 5, 2018

The Agile response to “How much will it cost, and when will it be done?”

Reading time: 3 minutes

The right answer to the question about scope, budget, and deadline is not to go along with the line of thinking that’s behind it. Instead, offer management a better way to manage the risks of a project. Offer them a visible and transparent process like Scrum that allows for frequent change and makes the progress of teams visible on a transparent backlog. Scrum will not magically make your project succeed, nor will it prevent mistakes and failures, but it will make them less costly because you can detect them more frequently as part of the iterative nature.

Read the complete article here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/the-agile-response-to-how-much-will-it-cost-and-when-will-it-be-done-86d907573871

October 29, 2018

Don’t Be a Scrum Bully.

As a Scrum Master, you have a responsibility to your teams, the product owner, and also the organization. Do more than regurgitate what’s written in the Scrum Guide. Sure, know your sh*t, but don’t be a jerk about it.

Learn. Grow. Share. Don’t be stagnant. Don’t be a Scrum bully. Read the full article here: https://medium.com/serious-scrum/dont-be-a-scrum-bully-d61d0fef022e

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018

How to Improve Team Collaboration with Personal Maps

A great exercise for a better understanding of people is to capture what you know about them in personal maps.

Read all about them here: https://management30.com/practice/personal-maps/

October 18, 2018December 5, 2018

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/building-theliberators-com-integrate-and-release-often-de3b13ae313f

https://medium.com/the-liberators/how-we-built-theliberators-com-incrementally-93d5095db4ab

Preparing The Product Backlog for the website of The Liberators

Building Our New Website (Day 1)

Building Our New Website (Day 2)

Building TheLiberators.com: Ending the Daily Scrum with a High-Five

Building Theliberators.com: feedback wanted!

Building TheLiberators.com with Scrum

October 18, 2018October 18, 2018

The First Question To Ask When Building Teams – Is This Really A Team?

Reading Time: 5 minutes

Have you ever wondered why so many organizations fail at building effective and high performing teams despite offering so much support in different ways e.g. by managing people, by managing the environment, and by coaching teams? You’re not alone. This is often something that frustrates teams, coaches, and managers.

Read the complete article here: https://www.viktorcessan.com/2018/10/the-first-question-to-ask-when-building-teams-is-this-really-a-team/