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Thanks for an insightful story Anton Bevzuk
“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”
“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!”
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.
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”
“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”
True. It’s indeed important to note that working on potential release increments as part of the…
Well written response! Thank you. The tool could have been Jira but it isn’t.
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…
I agree with you that you need to have an understanding of what Agile and/or Scrum entails before…
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.
Well you clapped ‘only’ 10 times out of 50. ;-) Seriously though: thanks a lot!
“Scrum — Management tells us to use story points”
Hi Scott Duncan I am not trying to make a distinction.
“Scrum demands co-located teams”
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!
Scrum — Who determines the Sprint Goal?
This is a touchy subject indeed.
“Scrum — We don’t have Sprint Goals”
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
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”
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
500 followers for Serious Scrum!
“Scrum — We often have to cut corners on the Definition of Done”
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.
“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?
15 reasons to seriously reconsider if Scrum is your framework
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!
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.
My teams have a shared responsibility if it comes to updating tickets within JIRA.
The Development Team is responsible to make the plan.
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!
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 writing the article.
Hi Paul, where in the Scrum Guide does is state you need to add a change task?
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
Modern Agile community — Is it a safe environment?
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
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…
Shuhari part 2 – a journey to the essence of Heart of Agile
Shuhari part 1 - the Japanese route to mastery
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!
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
Modern Agile — How do we use it to raise the bar?
Thanks for sharing this experience.
Thank you for the positive feedback.
Modern Agile — an introduction to an awesome concept
An organisation in transition, part II
Modern Agile and Scrum: is Scrum unfit for purpose?