The Team is supposed to improve. It is expected to simply learn from its mistakes and work even faster. Many Managers doubt that this can work, considering that their Teams are currently not even delivering or delivering without complying to the requirements, as deadlines are ignored. How is it possible to push a Team towards … weiterlesen →
Author Archives: Boris Gloger
Scrum is KANBAN – but does that even matter?
Over the past weeks, we have thought a lot about Don Reinertsen‘s ideas on Second Generation Lean Product Development. His input lays the foundation for understanding methods like KANBAN, which was created by David Anderson and is currently being sold as the counterpart to Scrum. Having dealt with the ideas of Don Reinertsen intensely and … weiterlesen →
Why thinking in terms of capacity utilisation is absolutely idiotic
I actually catch myself heading to this seminar and wondering whether the trainer will be able to teach me something new. And then the first thing that I learn is this: There is a mathematical reason for why it is idiotic to utilise a Team at 100 percent of its capacity. In his latest seminar … weiterlesen →
ScrumMaster: Career opportunity or setback?
Let‘s face it: did you attend a Scrum course (whether it be Certified ScrumMaster, Professional ScrumMaster or ScrumMaster Advanced) in order to become a ScrumMaster? The reason behind asking this question is that by now we should have a reasonably large number of trained Certified, Professional and Advanced ScrumMasters in Germany. Interestingly enough, the companies … weiterlesen →
How do you create a Persona?
Recently I suggested on my Blog, that the user role needs to be brought to life by imaging real people who actually represent people in these roles. Look at the report from ABC about IDEO. They illustrate realistically how a design team tries to find out which people use which shopping cart and above all, … weiterlesen →
The User-Role is dead, the persona lives
About 10 years ago the XP-Community had the idea to use user stories to record the essence of a function from the user’s viewpoint. As a reminder: As a user role I would like a function so that I have the following advantage. [1] A super idea that Mike Cohn adopted and made popular with … weiterlesen →
Scrum is everywhere…even in a Catholic mass
Sunday I was at a catholic mass. A totally normal mass. The small ordinary church on the outskirts of Vienna was obviously built in the 60′s. Sparsely decorated it has a large cross that dominates the wall behind the altar. 100 to 150 people came to the church that morning to commemorate a deceased priest … weiterlesen →