When delivering Scrum classes I get a lot of questions. In some countries I get questions about how individual performance appraisals are delt with in Scrum. My short answer is: They are not! Scrum is team based and that does not fit very well with individual performance appraisals. The long and detailed answer is: How to …
When working according to Scrum you face to choose between physical tools or software tools. There are situations when software tools are required, i.e. distributed development. However, physical tools have the benefit of letting all information necessary to be accessible in one place. Team members, ScrumMaster, Product Owner and stakeholders can easily get access to the gathered …
At the Scrum Gathering in Prague last week, many participants were active during the Open Space sessions of the last day. I suggested the topic “Definition of Done in different settings“. Thirteen of us found the topic interesting enough to spend 45 minutes together. Here is my write up of the discussion as I remember it. …
At the end of my Certified Scrum Product Owner classes I often ask the participants to summarize their learnings from the class by writing down advice to someone starting up as a Product Owner in Scrum. The collected advice is often good. The insights shown by the participants are impressive. You can find the top …
At the end of all my Scrum classes I tell participants that I offer life time support of my classes. I encourage people to stay in touch and ask questions also after the classes. Today a participant took me up on my offer. I received the following: ”Our team has been asked to change from …
I offer Scrum Trainings in both Europe and Asia. When telling people this fact I am often asked about the differences in culture and how class participants may behave differently in Europe compared to Asia. Yes, I have noticed some differences. I have also noticed similarities. The most encouraging similarity is the habit of asking …
When traveling I have made it a habit to always count the pieces of luggage I carry. Instead of trying to remember all the time which specific pieces I carry, I just remember the number. To me it’s a safety and backup thing. I know other people do similar things. My father in law once …
I’m speaking at the Scrum Gathering in Paris, September 23-25, 2013. Session: Scrum meets Management 3.0 – how to apply the latest management ideas to strengthen Scrum Track: Empower Agile Culture with others cultures, domains and approaches Duration: 90 Minutes Timeslot: Tuesday, September 24, 13:30 – 15:00 Room: Auteuil Session Type: Workshop Level: ♥♥
I will speak at the Lean Tribe Gathering 15 in Malmö, Sweden on April 24. The title of my talk is “What Managers say about Scrum – before and after”. The talk will be in Swedish and the Swedish title is “Vad chefer säger om Scrum – ett före och efter perspektiv”.
Last year I did an inhouse Scrum training at a small company, let’s call them SmallCo. SmallCo have had a small team working according to Scrum and they are looking for possibilities to expand the use of Scrum. As many companies SmallCo are facing challenges int their implementation of Scrum. One of the obvious ones …