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Thanks for an insightful story Anton Bevzuk

2018 — My year at Medium

“Cross functional teams are a stupid idea – no one can do everything “

Modern Agile and Scrum — Make People Awesome

“We hate all these fun activities during the retro”

Yes indeed Scott Duncan.

“We rotate the Scrum Master role every Sprint”

“Our Scrum Master doesn’t let us think”

“A Scrum Master should be a benevolent dictator”

“We don’t try out new things - what if it fails?”

“I got my PSM I certification — Am I ready to be a Scrum Master?”

Serious Scrum Weekly Update #14

“User Story Mapping is Big Design Upfront!”

Hi Liza Armstrong

Hi Optimus Prime prime.

Hi Optimus Prime

I know many developers that do like the Daily Scrum.

You have different experiences than I have.

A team that decides not to do Scrum? Perfectly ok in my book.

That’s not the point of the article.

Well it’s a free world.

User Story Mapping and probabilistic forecasting

Serious Scrum Weekly Update #13

Oh yes, many companies have no clue what a Scrum Master is.

Is a certificate enough to land a Scrum Master job?

“Scrum — Our Product Owner is absent all the time”

Thank you Kevin Richard. I couldn’t agree more. I do certainly recognize what you say!

“Scrum — Our Product Owner is a tyrant”

As always thanks for the response. It’s highly appreciated!

This is exactly how my organisation has viewed the Scrum Master role.

My new Scrum Team decided to delay the Sprint Review

Serious Scrum Weekly Update #11

“The Scrum Master role is distributed over the team”

Yet here you are making one false claim about Scrum after another.

“We didn’t meet the Sprint Goal — let’s extend the Sprint”

Hi Constantin Guay.

“The Scrum Master to Scrum Team ratio should be 1:1”

Scrum in organization that doesn’t want to change — a deadly combination

“Scrum’s 2 to 4 week Sprints don’t suit us”

Thanks! Corrected.

True. It’s indeed important to note that working on potential release increments as part of the…

Thank you for the kind words.

Well written response! Thank you. The tool could have been Jira but it isn’t.

Scrum and top-down decisions

Serious Scrum Weekly Update #8

I fully agree. Also with the notion that it often is a budget decision.

“A Scrum Master needs to be part of the development team”

Do you know that ING uses Scrum within their Spotify inspired organisation?

“Our Scrum Master has to lead all the events”

First Sprint Planning with a new Scrum Team

I agree with this Scott Duncan.

Exactly David K.! I might spend an article on that.

Unless of course the team isn’t in control of their own time and work extra hours to ‘make the…

Serious Scrum New #6

I agree with you that you need to have an understanding of what Agile and/or Scrum entails before…

Well said Gunnar R. Fischer !

Scrum — “Our Product Owner pressures us to lower our estimates”

Yes Paddy Corry this is fully in line with his view on estimates.

I fully understand your point.

I don’t hate story points

Serious Scrum News #5

Well you clapped ‘only’ 10 times out of 50. ;-) Seriously though: thanks a lot!

“Scrum — Management tells us to use story points”

The logic of #NoEstimates

Hi Scott Duncan I am not trying to make a distinction.

“Scrum demands co-located teams”

Thanks for the kind words!

The “You’re not doing Scrum” argument

I fully agree that there are many benefits to releasing your increment.

Thanks for the feedback on the content and the gifs I used!

Thanks for the kind words and for the editor note!

“Scrum — We can’t release an increment every Sprint”

I love your articles about Scrum + Hip Hop.

That’s a great article. The more people spreading the word the better!

Serious Scrum News #3

Serious Scrum News #3

Scrum — Who determines the Sprint Goal?

This is a touchy subject indeed.

“Scrum — We don’t have Sprint Goals”

Mount Stupid? :-)

Thank you Jorge Olimpia.

Modern Agile’s Make People Awesome — “What’s wrong with being ordinary?”

This is an article in itself Gunnar R. Fischer !

“ The Daily Scrum? Why daily?”

Congratulations with a great first publication! Great topic!

Modern Agile and Scrum — Experiment and Learn Rapidly

Hey Gunnar R.

Excellent observation :-)

Yes. Many issues within the organisation start and end with safety.

Exactly. It is the starting point of everything. Without safety forget about anything else.

I am planning to write something about the ‘how’ soonish.

“Scrum Wears Us Down, We Don’t Get Any Respite”

Welcome Gunnar R.

That’s exactly what I suggested as well!

A rant from a “Scrumdamentalist”

7 items that you might think are part of Scrum but aren’t

That’s difficult indeed.

Thank you very much!

Hi Justin Bériot!

500 followers for Serious Scrum!

“Scrum — We often have to cut corners on the Definition of Done”

Hi Phillip Gadzinski.

9 remarkable Scrum Guide improvement suggestions

I strongly believe that Scrum is applied incorrectly in many companies.

If you look at the iron triangle scope-budget-time you could argue that budget and time are fixed…

Scrum — Organizational changes are hard

“The Product Owner is not allowed to attend our Sprint Retrospective”

5 controversial topics that were removed from Scrum

“We often skip the Sprint Review.”

Modern Agile — Efforts to make people awesome can make them feel unsafe

“Scrum is just Waterfall in disguise”

Scrum — 17 things that need to be in place to succeed. And then one more!

Indeed I could have stated it better.

Yes Denis Salnikov.

“Scrum — Our Sprint Backlog is seen as commitment”

Heart of Agile — Agile for Gurus?

Thank you for the kind words Sjoerd Nijland

Modern Agile — Agile goes beyond Software Development

I fully understand your point.

Thanks very much for the response. I think you hit the nail on the head.

Sounds like semantics to me, optimizing vs maximizing.

Scrum: not for you? Fine. But your article with criticism is dead wrong!

If you can’t count what’s important you make what you can count important…

“We do Scrum, but… 15 minutes will do to finish the Sprint Planning”

Exactly Vicki Jakes. I might bring that forward in one of my next items about the Sprint Backlog.

“We do Scrum but our Sprint Backlog is fixed”

Thanks Tim Ottinger. I really appreciate this feedback.

Modern Agile – Safety? People Awesome? — “No time, I’ve got a business to run!”

Who decides what goes in the Sprint Backlog?

The reason for us to have this Impediment Wall is to have alignment on company level.

Thank you very much Leon Krancher!

Does Scrum protect your team from burning out?

Thanks!

15 reasons to seriously reconsider if Scrum is your framework

Great article.

Great first article Cor!

I was in a similar situation.

We don’t need a Scrum Master

We don’t let the teams self-organise

Thx a lot. And you wrote a great art. You are welcome to join us on Slack and share ideas!

Our Company Impediments Wall

Scrum – We don’t deliver a working increment every Sprint

Thanks very much Jorge. And thanks for the idea. We will evaluate if we pick this up.

An introduction to Scrum, and…

This one? https://serious-scrum.slack.com/join/shared_invite/enQtMzcxNDQ4NTM4MzI1LTI0ZGU0NjFkZGM2ZDM

Isn’t the link in the article working? Otherwise Sjoerd Nijland may be able to help.

Scrum – are you Serious?

My teams have a shared responsibility if it comes to updating tickets within JIRA.

The Development Team is responsible to make the plan.

We hate the Scrum events!

You waited for the Daily Scrum to report your impediment?!

MODERN AGILE — An introduction

Deliver Value Continuously — A Modern Agile guiding principle

Exactly! And organisations with a perfect job description might in reality be totally of the mark.

Are You Really Looking For a Scrum Master? — Not According To the Job Description!

Experiment & Learn Rapidly— A Modern Agile guiding principle

Exactly! Great post Sjoerd Nijland.

First there was Scrum, then came the Agile Manifesto. This part is incorrect.

Thanks Sjoerd Nijland! I used your comments to update the post.

12 brilliant ways to fail with Agile

Make safety a prerequisite — A Modern Agile guiding principle

The way you describe Scrum isn’t the best way to implement it in this case.

Nice. Really really great post!

Long live Scrum!

Does this article explain it better?

I believe that whatever the way is you set the expectations, it is a journey to reach the goal.

Make people awesome — A Modern Agile guiding principle

#NoEstimates: the name doesn’t make sense, but why is this an issue?

No! The Scrum Master is NOT a Project Manager!

I would demo when something is worth demoing, regardless of the moment.

You can shorten the Scrum Events.

Thanks for an interesting read.

Exactly! Thanks for a great post Sjoerd Nijland!

Hey Paul. How would you call what I described? Is that close to ‘Scrumban’?

Thanks for the recommendations on the articles, but I think I know a thing or two about what Agile…

Thanks for the answers, really appreciated.

Thanks for this article.

Thanks for writing the article.

Hi Paul, where in the Scrum Guide does is state you need to add a change task?

I sort of agree.

1 minute story: introduction to Modern Agile

Thanks for the remark. I’ll dive into this if other wording is better suited.

Maybe this article helps to explain what is meant:

Releasing to production will soon be something we take into account when planning indeed.

Thank you very much for sharing your experiences.

Devops and Scrum – extending the Definition of Done brings us Devops

Thanks for sharing!

Modern Agile community — Is it a safe environment?

Thanks for the pointers.

Sure! Examples of a goal as general sense of direction are:

1 minute story: the essence of Heart of Agile

Another good thing about haters: it gives you the opportunity to reflect!

Shuhari part 3 — 10 inspirational people that reached Heart of Agile’s Kokoro

Heart of Agile vs Modern Agile vs Scrum

This is very recognisable!

Exactly. In the end the Scrum Master was able to get the manager and PO together to re-establish…

Yes! And here another concept can help you to reflect: Modern Agile.

Good too see you changed it to ‘Scrum’!

Thanks for your list of practices to demotivate, disengage, exhaust, stress, and sometimes break a…

Thanks for the article.

Shuhari part 2 – a journey to the essence of Heart of Agile

Shuhari part 1 - the Japanese route to mastery

I hate SCRUM!

Interesting article.I

Thank you!

Bedankt Dirk Hens. Goed leesvoer voor eenieder die niet van de hoed en de rand weet.

This is how I have continuous flow with Scrum

Exactly Christian Bick. Very well put indeed.

Modern Agile insights that help you advance

I am happy you found it informative. Thx!

Thanks for this!

Ah sorry. I believe you also referred to the dive and shuhari. I am not able to open the link atm.

Me too. In a keynote he showed a video of him diving from a cliff as example for Shuhari.

Thank you for this great article.

I do like that a lot too and I think both can coexist.

Thank you very much Bella Bardswell.

Heart of Agile vs Modern Agile

Modern Agile terms ambiguity — making a mountain out of a molehill?

Thanks for this excellent list of things to try!

If you wish to know more about #NoEstimates, you can start here: https://medium.com/@WJAgeling/my-ta

Interesting article!

Modern Agile — How do we use it to raise the bar?

Thanks for sharing this experience.

Thanks for this post.

Thank you for the positive feedback.

Objectives can be damaging

Modern Agile — an introduction to an awesome concept

An organisation in transition, part II

Hi Bhargav!

I can’t agree more.

Modern Agile and Scrum: is Scrum unfit for purpose?

A day in the life of a Scrum Master

Additional experiences with probabilistic forecasting