The Elephant In The Room – Part 1
Do you remember back in school, when you reached the level of classes where you had lab teams that were intended to work together on an assignment? Remember how that the group shared in the grade given...
View ArticleTo Sprint Zero or Not
Recently I have been seeing posts on a few forums about the concept of using a Sprint zero in Scrum or stabilizaiton sprints. Too often, the response from the mighty CSTs on high is “that’s not...
View ArticleScrum Master as a Secondary Role
Recently I’ve been seeing even more discussions on forums about members of the dev team taking on the Scrum Master (SM) role. I’m beginning to wonder if the traditional resource managers are creeping...
View ArticleDistributed Teams are OK Because We Have Great Collaboration Technology…Right?
Not in my experience if it is how a company is rationalizing having distributed teams (a single team with members in multiple geographical locations). Don’t get me wrong, it’s great if your company...
View ArticleTo Estimate or Not? To Track or Not? – Those Are The Questions!
I continue to see discussions on Agile and Lean forums about whether it is good to track this or estimate that. The answers are like most things with Agile and Lean, they are contextual, but consider...
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