Got a little frustrated with a team that I coach, which was doing really well. Then over Christmas they seemed to forget everything they’d learned last year 🙁 I gently pointed out some areas of improvement 😉
One of the harder things, that I find, about being a scrum master or agile coach is letting the team make mistakes so they can learn from it… But that’s the essence of agile 😉
It has been a fun ride. I’ve got to beat the shit out of managers, take the piss out of windbags and air my views on agile topics that are important to me. Very therapeutic! I never expected to create[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mostly I’m a retro fan. However, I have found myself in certain situations at customers where “teams” are being force-fed agility. This is not conducive to constructive retros 🙁 This was (retrospectively) a good learning experience, because having expended a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is what comes of teaching “scrum basics” courses and having a remote glass of wine/gin&tonic with RB afterwards. He had the waterfall worshippers idea 😉 It also led to this heresy: The Scrum Commandments
The original idea for the agile drill sergeant was born after a couple of pints and a difficult day. An approximation to this was one of the first test sketches that I drew to see if it was more than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I bit off more than I can chew with this one. In scrum terms, it was a 20 point story that I should have split up before starting the sprint. In Kanban terms, the card didn’t move much on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Should have called this “Projects in Progress limits”. Seeing as this is an “agile” comic, I might just do that 😉 The original idea was that the only agile aspect of the set-up is the way the team has to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
