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 Meetings
The Purpose behind Amateurism in the World of Agile Product Development
“For purpose-creating systems, everything has a purpose.“ (N. Luhmann) Meaning: Even apparent nonsense has some meaningful purpose. I recently read an article in the knowledge magazine SZ Magazin of the South German Newspaper („Dem Amateur ist nichts zu schwör“, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Number 24/ 20120615), which discussed amateurs in the fields of politics, economy and … 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 →
Advanced Christmas Tree Decorating
With Christmas just around the corner I was able to experience a really nice “Retro”. “Retro” in quotes, as not all elements were there, but in this case that was not so important. What was valuable was the respect shown for work completed by individual team members. This meant a lot of preparation time for … weiterlesen →
Scrum Essentials: The End of Meetings
“Oh no…not another meeting again.” Such a comment or something similar can be heard again and again. “Scrum calls for so many meetings. That is such a waste of time and so unproductive.” I am beginning to understand these heartfelt groans better and better, because more and more teams keep asking for help. We should … weiterlesen →
ScrumMeetings moderation or “a ScrumMaster has nothing to do“
Many people keep asking me why a ScrumMaster spends 100% of his time working as a ScrumMaster. What is it he does all day long? One answer is: He moderates every meeting. Not only meetings affected by Scrum. He never allows even one single meeting of his team – even meetings within a team to … weiterlesen →
Daily Scrum is a Review
Innovations, that have really made the Daily Scrum effective, were: The three clarifying questions, 2004, Boris Gloger The fourth question: “How can I help everyone else in the team?”, 2005, Boris Gloger Eliminate the Sprint Backlog and replace it with the Taskboard, 2006, Tobias Mayer Restrict the length of the task to one day, 2006, … weiterlesen →