As a young, green university graduate I often asked why we EDS employees should ever work without making mistakes: The development teams were paid and then the support teams were called in to correct any mistakes the developers had made. I asked myself “What incentive does the service provider have to do it right the [...]
Inhalte mit dem Tag "Roles"
Fixed Prices and Scrum … the Value counts.
August 16th, 2010 09:52 am von Kay DuBois · No Comments · Product Owner, Summer School 2010
Necromancy or Development of the Team Spirit?
July 29th, 2010 07:00 am von Dieter Roesner · No Comments · ScrumMaster, Summer School 2010, Team
What actually makes a “good” or effective team, for example a Scrum Team? Of course there are many factors that must be present and work together. An essential and desirable element of a “good” team is certainly what in general is called the team spirit (sometimes also group unity). Team spirit is invoked again and [...]
Team Leadership in Projects – Assigned or Chosen
July 26th, 2010 07:00 am von Dieter Roesner · 1 Comment · Manager, ScrumMaster, Summer School 2010
If you have been following the political process since the last parliamentary election in Germany in 2009, you can observe a fascinating phenomenon: the media and other “experts” complain about a huge vacuum in leadership and the number 1 reason – the chancellor – has been asked ” to finally start leading”. But somehow this [...]
Non-Non-Communication and yet Non-Communication
July 19th, 2010 09:00 am von Boris Gloger · No Comments · Scrum, ScrumMaster, Summer School 2010
Thank you for entering into this dialog with us. The Summer School is a big success already. This week we will write about Communication and Moderation, the Case Study will come from the media industry, and it will show how effective the use of Scrum can be in companies. It is possible not to non-communicate [...]
Planning is a Waste of Time
June 21st, 2010 04:52 pm von Boris Gloger · No Comments · Agile Planning, Good to know, Manager, Product Owner, Scrum, Team
In a wonderful interview that BRAND EINS [1] led with Niels Pfläging we can read that classical business planning, that is budgets, strategy and annual plans are absolutely nonsensical and counterproductive. “If businesses plan, they either waste time or hurt themselves.” [2] His argument is: “[...] whoever wants to be successful today must be able [...]
Scrum as a Defense Strategy
June 18th, 2010 09:57 am von Boris Gloger · No Comments · Product Owner, Scrum Meetings, ScrumMaster, Team
Unfortunately they still exist. Scrum development teams that do not understand that they have the responsibility: to produce a product! Instead of just discussing with the Product Owner how a product could be or what is available in a Sprint or instead of trying to ‘pull out’ the best possible solution they resist against the [...]








