I found this interesting slide deck:

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I did a training and one important topic was — what shall the ScrumMaster do with people who do not perform. The team does know that there is a person who is not able to do the job. What shall the team  do, when they do have someone who does not perform, when the velocity [...]

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I found a cool slide show that give you an idea for you start to learn more:
Have fun! 
boris

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Fire Someone Today! Is a cool book by Bob Pritchett about entrepreneurship. I liked it, because it has a very provocative title and he has some very counter-intuitive ideas. Firing someone when he does not perform or do not wanted to work in the way I wanted was a lesson that I needed to learn during the [...]

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In several posts I tried to say that Scrums roots are not in the lean manufacturing debate but in knowledge management. Jeff Sutherland re-posted today a comment he made a couple of years ago on this blog. Roots of Scrum: Object Technology.
I re-post this article here:
Scrum was originally designed to support emerging object technology environments, which [...]

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In 2006 I wrote a short article “Scrum Delivers” [1] in which I showed that the principles of the Toyota Production System as described by Jeffrey K. Liker [2] can be mapped to Scrum. In the following weeks I will show how Scrum maps these principles. The idea is to understand Scrum as a mindset not as [...]

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Kurt Nielsen has written a very nice short article that I would like to bring to your awareness:
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I have been doing Scrum for almost 4 years now, and it is still exiting, especially when you see teams raise their bar to more than twice what the expected and four times as high as their mothers [...]

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I do not understand everything in this slide set – but it is definitely a very good start for people who speaks Portuguese.
Please read it before you go to my class in Recife in two weeks.

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Introduction:

Scrumy.com created by Knockout Apps is maybe the most intuitive Scrum Tool I know so far. It is nothing else than a taskboard.

When you go to www.scrumy.com you will see nothing as a clean and google like screen:

You can generate a URL for you project taskboard and then you click “I´m feeling Scrumy!” and within [...]

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One part of the Certified ScrumTraining in Vienna is the cooking part. Participants of the training cook in a competition against (with) each other.
All people get a t-shirt that will empower them as Certified ScrumMaster.
The cooks created wonderful dishes and everybody was satisfied with the food our Scrum Cooks created.
You see that they real to [...]

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Garr Reynolds, author of the real cool book “PresentationZen” features again Sir Ken Robinson who talks about creativity.
Robinson talks in an interview about our education system. And he has very important points to make.

The concept of school is to train people for the industrial life.
The education system leave a huge area of talent out.
Education looks [...]

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On Tobias critical statement about Jeff Sutherlands about Shock Therapy I found:
Kripanidhi Says: Agile, Scrum, XP are all based on a very high discipline(self discipline)paradigms. These Values based, Self-organizing, Empirical Process driven Team Approaches need a very high team maturity. That’s why Kent Beck is now calling it “Responsible Development” – tied with Responsibility, Accountability [...]

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On Tobias critical statement about Jeff Sutherlands about Shock Therapy I found:
Kripanidhi Says: Agile, Scrum, XP are all based on a very high discipline(self discipline)paradigms. These Values based, Self-organizing, Empirical Process driven Team Approaches need a very high team maturity. That’s why Kent Beck is now calling it “Responsible Development” – tied with Responsibility, Accountability [...]

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Wonderful! What a great event! So much fun! I leaned so much! The location was wonderful!
Have been some of the comments about the Certified ScrumMaster Training last week in Vienna. Thanks to Katrin Dietze. She found this astonishing flat in Vienna. To run a class in a very stylish flat was the best idea we [...]

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Tobias wrote an answer to the blog article of Jeff Sutherland Shock Therapy: Bootstrapping Hyperproductive Scrum.
Tobias Article: Shock Therapy … or Compassion shows clearly the problem in which we run, if we consider Scrum only as a methode to “force” teams to become hyper-productive.
Tobias: What Jeff Sutherland and Scott Downey are describing is forced [...]

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Scott Downey, MySpace Agile Coach, has a way of bootstrapping Scrum teams to a high performing state in a company that is about 1/3 waterfall, 1/3 ScrumButt with project managers, and 1/3 pure Scrum with only Scrum roles. Scott consistently takes teams to 240% of the velocity of MySpace waterfall teams in an average of [...]

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Design rules :) Not only in product development but also in Sprint Planning 2.  A team that worked with me last week did everything to understand what they really have to do in their Sprint Planning 2. The walked through the code base during the planning session. All 8 team members learned a lot. They understood [...]

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If the team is mediocre and maybe not starting to screw it up yet but not delivering the velocity wanted, a Manager or a Scrum Master might replace some team members with more senior persons.
This comment of Chris triggers a question:
What then is the concept of judging a team completely?
Maybe we should start thinking about that in a [...]

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If you give a good idea to mediocre team, they´ll screw it up. But if you give a mediocre idea to a great team they´ll make it work. — Ed Cutmull in How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity.
First let me make one point absolutely clear – I truly believe that we have all the same rights, that every human [...]

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I wrote about how to run Sprint Planning 1. We tried the same approach a few weeks ago with more than 100 people in one room (more than 10 teams working on the same product).  We did a huge scaled Sprint Planning session 1 and 2.  Believe it or not … it worked.  People were very [...]

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I did a coaching and training last week and the most important problem was the question – How to handle fix price, fix date contracts?
“The “Money for Nothing” strategy works when customers want fixed price estimates for the entire contract up front. The Agile contract allows termination of the contract early when the value of [...]

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Count-Down ….  2 …  days to go! We will  be running the most exiting Certified ScrumMaster class of the year on Wednesday .
Two trainers — deeply in love with their subject, who love to share their experience with people, who know how to create deep emotional experiences and a set up that you will not find [...]

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Looks like they still need heroes, despite the dailies, the open communications, and so on.
I got this very interesting reply to my posting yesterday. Chris’ comment hit a chord. Yes – we in the project management area try to create processes that do not rely on “Heroes”.  This was one of the most repeated statements in [...]

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The Harvard Business Review of this month is a must read for everybody who would like to understand how a Scrum team works. In “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity” (p. 65) Ed Catmull describes the principles how the organize the work of their extreme creative people. They do have Dailys, they do trust their team. [...]

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Hi – my certified ScrumMaster class in Mechelen in November is sold out. There will be a new class in Mechelen next year. In case you want to go to a English ScrumMaster class: I do one in Vienna next week.

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