If you must ask, you’re not doing Scrum. If they were optional, why would you have them at all? If you’re too busy to attend, you’re not a team working on a scrum, you’re an individual fighting on your own. Too many times, early in the formation of a team when I would be unable …
NO Period Stick to your “contract” to perform a certain amount of work in a certain period of time and, as Scrum Master (not the team!), work with senior managers or others to find another way to deal with an “emergency”. In over six years of leading agile projects using Scrum, I have never stopped …
One of the principles behind The Agile Manifesto states,“The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.” I couldn’t agree more! However, for three years, I ran a dispersed team which could not meet face-to-face. Of nine team members, only two were co-located in the same …
This Certified ScrumMaster is Still a Grasshopper While I do have experience in what did and did not work for my situation, I was having a difficult time trying to find the right way to employ Scrum. I was looking for the right methodology, the proper technique, the right tools, the best framework; in short, …
Binary Estimation Estimating work has always been painful for us. How accurately can you estimate the number of hours you expect something to take before you’ve had an opportunity to fully investigate what’s involved? You don’t; you take a SWAG (simple wild assed guess). I’ve always wondered where the value is in that. Pick a …