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Agile adoptions tend to take the form of journeys. It would be wonderful if they were “on-off” switches but they are not. I was privileged to have been part of a part of such a journey. This journey started circa 2013 and this organisation is continuously learning and adapting.
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Originally posted on June 16, 2015.
This year’s Scrum Gathering is coming to Johannesburg! The theme this year is Unlikely Heroes.
Tickets are now on sale, and the call for papers has gone out.
Article originally published on January 16, 2014.
I’m not a fan of teams using tools in place of a physical Scrum board. The physical act of writing stories on index cards, moving stickies and having the daily stand-up around it is so powerful. It becomes an anchor for communication and collaboration within the team, the place around which meaningful conversations take place, much like the proverbial watercooler.
This article was originally published on January 22, 2014.
The first thing I do when a Scrum Master tells me that they didn’t do a sprint retrospective because of lack of time is count…slowly…to ten, plastic smile pasted on my face while I try to focus through the red haze in front of my eyes, chaotic thoughts running through my mind…“No time for improvement? No time to become more productive? No time to become great?”, before I regain some semblance of rationality. For me, the sprint retrospective is the most valuable Scrum ceremony.
This article was originally published on May 14th, 2013.
Scrum is a simple framework to understand. It is not always easy to implement. A team humble enough to suspend disbelief and trust the process will start experiencing the benefits within 3 sprints. The business and users, will similarly experience the benefits in as short a time-span.