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 →
Category Archives: Scrum
The ScrumMasters‘ Checklist
Particularly when ScrumMasters have been operating in one company over a long period of time, they turn blind to organisational deficiencies. Of course, a good ScrumMaster would have already taken initiative and found someone that can give him regular feedback. However, it is not always that easy. For this reason, I would like to present … weiterlesen →
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 →
The ScrumMasters‘ Checklist
Particularly when ScrumMasters have been operating in one company over a long period of time, they turn blind to organisational deficiencies. Of course, a good ScrumMaster would have already taken initiative and found someone that can give him regular feedback. However, it is not always that easy. For this reason, I would like to present … weiterlesen →
Back to the future: Product Backlog Templates!
Recently, a friend of mine tried to convince me to have a look at this Japanese, animated series (please do not ask me about its title…) in the same breath he told me about annoying sequences in these animes, where suddenly the main story line is interrupted by some nonsense episodes called fillers, in which … weiterlesen →
The Optimal Heart Beat of a Scrum Team
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 →
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 →