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 →
Category Archives: ScrumTools
Product Backlog and Taskboard Evaluation – JIRA
JIRA is everywhere. Everyone talks about it, everybody wants it, but not everybody can have it – why is that? In my first article, I announced that a series of articles will follow in which Scrum tools will be reviewed. This blog entry is the first of many in which I will evaluate currently available … weiterlesen →
There is no “I” in team – with Marshallow, Spaghetti and Creativity a step towards Team Building
You are a team leader, ScrumMaster, project manager and you find yourself in this ad? Looking for: Interactive tools for team builiding Offer: communication barriers, coordination difficulties, role conflicts, lack of transparency, unclear team, outdated thinking, daily routines, boring work day Then keep reading! In my opinion Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete of the … weiterlesen →
Impediment Backlog | Sources to fill my Impediment Backlog
The Impediment Backlog is a living document, which reflects what the ScrumMaster does for his team. He continually updates this Backlog carefully. Where do the items for this ever changing Backlog come from? Results of the retrospective provide important and valuable items. The Daily Scrum puts pressure on the ScrumMaster every day. Long walks New … weiterlesen →
Scrum Tools | SeeNowDo | Review
I met Giora Morein [1], the founder of BigVisible, a company from Boston, in Orlando at the Scrum Gathering 2010. He showed me his incredible cool ScrumBoard application SeeNowDo. The focus of SeeNowDo the is to provide a taskboard for distributed teams, so every member report their progress on tasks. SeeNowDo is a Web Application and … weiterlesen →
5 min on Scrum | Trust Line Exercise
In a Certified ScrumMaster training I did with Peter Hundermark [1] in Frankfurt a couple of weeks ago, he introduced us to a nice exercise: The Trust Line. You and your partner are opposite of each other. Between you and your partner is a line. Now you need to convince your partner, opponent, to change … weiterlesen →
Scrum Tools | Target Process | Review
Target Process is a tool created by Target Process Inc. to manage agile process. They can support Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean and others. The tool have a good set of features and some nice ideas to speed up the addition of data for your project. They also provide a Eclipse and Visual Studio add-in so … weiterlesen →