This is a re-post of a post from July 2015, which may be a while ago but may still have some relevance today. Yesterday I attended Scrum Day Europe, which had the theme ‘Scaling Scrum’. Perhaps predictably, the only one to consider the case: ‘natural growth’ was Gunther Verheyen. Everyone who spoke after him was […]
Implicit in Agile methods, is a certain image of human nature. This view of human nature is prescriptive, you have to ‘buy in’ to this view or else somewhere along the line you will end up in conflict with yourself or with the particular agile method you are attempting. This is a real problem if […]
This is a re-post from my blog, but one that is still relevant today. Continuous Improvement, Autonomy, Validation – these terms are becoming so worn that they feel like business jargon. But if you have experienced the pain that Stagnation, Command & Control and Big Bang Deployment brings, you have ample reason not to look […]
This is a cross-post from my own blog, I hope you find value in it! Watching the development of yacht sailing teams during a campaign, I have always been struck by the similarities between an effective team on a boat and an effective Scrum team. If we take an X-35 team, it has 7 to […]
Dit is een facilitatiegids voor een online User Story Mapping workshop. Wanneer gebruik je dit? User Story Mapping is een techniek om in plaats van een platte lijst, een groter verband te laten zien tussen werkitems. In een (serie) workshop(s), maak je een kaart van al het werk wat er nodig zal zijn om bepaalde […]
As precautions against the spread of the Corona virus take effect, many of our teams have started working from home. This is hard. Good Scrum is much easier with a team who all work in the same location. The Spontaneous- and non-verbal communication that is lost usually makes understanding each other a lot easier. Here […]