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Can I Do Perfect Scrum and Still Fail?
If you’re not keeping up… you’ve got some homework to do. My last post called “What Do I Mean by a Complex Product” is required reading before you read this post. If you’ve got a minute, go read that...
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There Are No Spherical Chickens!
Just in case you are wondering… I’m not suggesting that our Credit Card Processing team shouldn’t do Scrum. I’m not suggesting that they shouldn’t improve. What I am suggesting, is that if the...
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Subordinating the Scrum Team
Agilists intuitively get that it’s a bad idea to build an inventory of detailed specs way ahead of when they are going to get turned into software. Why? Because we know that as our product emerges, we...
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Hyperproductivity in Scrum
Last year sometime, I had the pleasure of hearing Jeff Sutherland speak at the Agile Atlanta group here in town. One of the things that Jeff always brings up in his talks, is that Scrum creates...
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Saturday Morning Ramblings… Bloody Stoopid Mary
Good morning everyone… I’m on a plane up to Philly to do a little work with the PMI Agile CoP. Delta bumped me to first class and I’m halfway through my second Bloody Mary. I’m asking that you be...
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Small Agile User Stories Reduce Variability in Velocity, Improve Predictability
If you estimate the size of your Agile user stories in relative story points, realize that the more large stories you have in your backlog, the less reliable will be your velocity (trend) for planning...
View ArticleUnderlying Mechanisms of Team Based Scrum
It’s getting all too common to walk into an organization that thinks they are doing Scrum, but isn’t seeing any real benefit from their efforts. They’ll think they’re doing Scrum because everyone...
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Failure Modes of Team Based Scrum
My take is that when you stop thinking about Scrum in terms of roles, ceremonies, and artifacts… it opens up the conversation to look at what’s really going on with your struggling Scrum...
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Don’t Sell me Agile, Solve my Problem
A while back I was invited to the AITP Atlanta Chapter for a CIO roundtable discussion that involved questions on agile. The event was a great success and I came away with a bunch of great insights...
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Top 10 Negative Personas of a Daily Standup Meeting
Agile teams should be holding a daily standup meeting. Don’t think of it as a daily planning meeting. Think of it as a daily opportunity to have a shared understanding of what is getting done and...
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