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Scrum Case Studies
I’ve recently been asked by one team to provide them with case studies/success stories about Scrum to prove scrum works. It is striking that the people ask for case studies about agile – but didn’t...
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Agile Gurus or Thought Leaders?
In the past few months I’ve seen the following question several times: “Who’re the Agile/Scrum Guru’s or Thought Leaders?” The urge to ask the question is good but misplaced. I assume it comes from...
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This question often comes up. Usually because a team has become bored with their retrospectives. I suggest you don’t use the same style or format more three times running. The question came up again...
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The Culture Game – Book Review
Dan Mezick has written an intriguing new book: The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager The Culture Game is a book to give Agile Leaders[1] a tool to help change the culture of their companies. It...
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Choosing a Sprint Length – Shorter Trumps Longer
The Agile Atlas (the Scrum Alliance’s Guide to Scrum), provides little advice when choosing your Sprint length, saying only: “A Sprint is a fixed time period, from one to four weeks, with a preference...
View ArticleIt’s not Scrum if…
The rules of Scrum are simple, but too often people forget that to actually do Scrum requires spirit, passion, engagement – and involving the whole team. This is a lighthearted list of some of the many...
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Agile Quick Links #26
Some interesting reading for the Agile community: Replacing Backlog Grooming (Derek Huether) 6 Things to Look for When Recruiting for Agile Teams (Evan Leybourn) How to deal with underachievers (Sami...
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Daily Scrum is a Waste of Time
Daily Scrum? It’s a waste of time and interrupts my work. Daily Scrum is just a chance for the ScrumMaster to show up and micromanage. Daily Scrum is for reporting status, but I could do that in an...
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Reinventing Existing Products – Big Bite vs Small Nibble Rewrites
Twice now in my career I’ve done a massive rewrite to replace an existing product. In both cases, it didn’t end well. Each time, the new product was competing with an existing product that was making...
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