Serious Scrum Weekly Update #66
Also this week we have a bundle of nice and informative articles for you. And we are happy to welcome two new writers: Vibhor Mahajan and…
Also this week we have a bundle of nice and informative articles for you. And we are happy to welcome two new writers: Vibhor Mahajan and Safae Benaissa. Welcome to the team! This digest covers all articles that we added to our publication between December 2nd and December 8th.
1. Hitting the right note with your product is hard — Maarten Dalmijn
Maarten continues to amaze us with his informative articles that are a fun read. This short but sweet article discusses the similarities between creating a product and playing the violin.
Hitting the right note with your product is hard
Piano players have it easy. You either play the right note or you don’t. It is hit or miss.medium.com
2. Is Scrum an awful project management methodology? — Vibhor Mahajan
In his first contribution to Serious Scrum, Vibhor explains how not Scrum, but bad practices make working with this framework awful. Here Vibhor emphasises the testing strategy.
Is Scrum an awful project management methodology?
Or is it our testing strategy that is awful?medium.com
3. Cross-functional team game — Willem-Jan Ageling
Playing a game and while doing so learning about an important element of Scrum. This is what Willem-Jan achieved with the game described in this article:
Cross-functional team game
Experience how bad silos are while playing with Legomedium.com
4. The 12 enemies of adaptability — Skill deficit by Marty de Jonge
Part 10 of Marty’s series about the enemies of adaptability is discussing skill deficit. This series is getting better and better!
The 12 enemies of adaptability
And weapons to kill them…. Enemy 10: Skill deficit. Without practice and skill development, no mastery.medium.com
5. Agile box retrospective by Safae Benaissa
Safae’s first contribution to Serious Scrum is about a great retrospective variant, the Agile Box:
AGILE BOX RETROSPECTIVE
Keep your agility alive within your organization.medium.com
6. Scrum forces you to crack the tough nuts that hold you back by Willem-Jan Ageling
Willem-Jan tells how a team that adopted Scrum forgot to tackle their major impediment. This is not what Scrum is about:
Scrum forces you to crack the tough nuts that hold you back
From “It’s how it works here” to “Plan to improve”medium.com
And this is everything we published last week. See you next week!