Scrum Guide 2020
Timebox ran out before I got around to colouring it. Though admittedly it was kinda planned as black & white… Iteration 2 delivered!
Timebox ran out before I got around to colouring it. Though admittedly it was kinda planned as black & white… Iteration 2 delivered!
This idea is the oldest in my backlog. I was never a fan of “The shower of appreciation” – personally I find it a little forced. So in my twisted mind, I wondered what it would be like if people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It fascinates me how some projects can be paralysed by legal and security requirements. Usually this happens when the (alleged) product owner doesn’t have the balls to challenge them, but is so scared of his own shadow that he blindly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So artistically, this is virtually a copy and paste. But I couldn’t get this point into the last cartoon 😉
Agile isn’t for everyone. And that’s just fine. What’s not fine is forcing people into agile teams when they don’t want to be there – cause that’s the current organisational structure, we’re all going to be agile, etc. You can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As someone once wrote, twice the value in half the time – or twice the effectiveness – would have been a more agile formulation. Twice the work in half in the time sounds like pure Taylorism! So a friend and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jira is one of those contentious issues in the agile world. As with many technologies, the bad rap often comes from misuse rather than the technology being intrinsically evil. I have often heard how awful Scrum is, only to find[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As an external consultant, you don’t always get to pick your customers. Sometimes Sales has sold your services without you even knowing about it. This can result in some rather pointless agile transformations where there is no appetite for change.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…