In one of my past blog entries, I had written about how the ScrumMaster is the sinus node of a Scrum Team due to keeping the time and rhythm. I would like to pick up on this metaphor once again in order to visualise my thoughts. On my last consulting job, a few Scrum Teams pushed us … weiterlesen →
The Retrospective in Scrum
Bearing in mind Hofstede’s Dimensions. The Retrospective is one of those personal meetings where I feel that my duty as a ScrumMaster is to enable each one of my Team members to freely voice his or her opinion. Another one of my tasks is – as always – to facilitate the smooth running of the … 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 →
Leadership, self-organization and legitimation
In our ScrumMaster Pro workshops, we often have to deal with the issue of uncertainty and lack of clarity in roles as a ScrumMaster or PO. New role models such as a ScrumMaster inherently take time to become established and achieve the defined acceptance. When I ask about this, answers point to the reality of … weiterlesen →
Mingle – the feature hydra
After presenting a review of Atlassians JIRA with its Agile GreenHopper plugin, this article within our series regarding Scrum Tools will be about ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle. ThoughtWorks Studios are quite well-known for their Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) portfolio, which comprises of an agile project management tool (Mingle), an agile release management tool (Go) and … weiterlesen →
Forget what you know and why good ScrumMasters don’t give answers
When Mike Cohn says that the transition to agility with Scrum is difficult then he is referring to characteristics like: the desired end state is unpredictable, changes occur faster than ever, and transition is not always from up to down or from down to up. Scrum not only effects what people do, but also contradicts … weiterlesen →