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Scrum 2020 — Individual accountability creates silos

Thank you for you kind words!

I Have A Problem With the New Scrum Guide

Hi! I saw your entry in the Serious Scrum library.

Scrum Guide 2020 — How Radical Is the Change From Self-Organisation To Self-Management?

Hi! Here's how we suggest to submit an article for our pub: https://medium.com/serious-scrum/how-to-

Scrum Guide 2020 — I like it!

Yes indeed!

Here is my article about that topic: https://medium.com/serious-scrum/safes-scrum-vs-scrum-according

I was not saying consultants are misguided.

You could also turn the question around.

Why Does Agile exist? Scrum Has the Answer

Don’t Waste Your Sprint Review. Make It Bigger Than Just Your Sprint

Hi. I am happy you like the article.

Everyone Uses Scrum But Many Haven’t Uncovered Its Full Potential

Thank you very much Ilja Vishnevski.

Thank you!

Can a Product Owner Hold the Development Team Accountable For Lack of Commitment?

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Done Well Trumps Mediocre Scrum

Hi Robin,

You aren’t correct about the Sprint Backlog.

Very good points jaedle!

I understand your point.

Here Is Why Many Developers Hate Scrum

You’re a Project Manager and Your Company Decides to Adopt Scrum — What’s In It For You?

Don’t Ruin Your Product by Focusing on Delivery and Forgetting About Product Development

“Product Owner” Is the Most Misunderstood Role in Scrum

“What Is The Right Answer to Address Our Tough Scrum Team Issue?”

I purposely did not touch upon that.

Our organisation has 15 Scrum teams working independently without needing on a SoS.

I’m discussing the fact that apparently Nexus needs to exist for multiple team Scrum while Scrum…

I don’t think it’s at odds with Scrum.

“Scrum is A Single Team Framework”

I’d suggest starting with the objective first, selecting items based on the objective.

That’s an interesting topic you address here.

Very well put!

Chances Are You Are Better Off Abandoning Scrum

Thank you Victorjbartash

You Can’t Be Effective With Scrum Without a Sprint Goal

I didn't mean on a different backlog.

I agree with the commitment to a Sprint goal.

That’s true.

Your Large Product Backlog Cripples Your Product

7 Reasons Why Your Manager Wishes to See Your Scrum Adoption Fail

Hi Michel.

A Sprint Review isn’t the same as a demo.

And then there’s the product environment, including stakeholders…

Yes, you can read it like that naked Agility with Martin Hinshelwood.

I can’t wait!

Some Organisations Are Better Off With SAFe Than With Scrum

It’s fine that you have this opinion and that you share it with others.

“Half-Hearted Improvements Were the Silent Killer of Our Scrum Team”

Thank you Jason Knight

Thanks for the feedback.

This really happened. And thank you!

I like that. I truly welcome training the whole team to be SM.

While I agree with you about the PO role (that product ownership could be shared in the team), the…

“We Stopped Working With a Scrum Master and We’re Killing It”

A Haiku — A Haiku

Thank you!

Alone — A Haiku

10 Reasons Why You Are Doomed to Fail With Scrum

Thank you Holly Jahangiri

That’s true Anwarul.

Thank you

Thank you Damien Bilal Alawiye

SAFe’s Scrum vs Scrum According To the Scrum Guide — They Are Not the Same

We recommend using Scrum as intended, unchanged.

Serious Scrum’s complicated stance on the Scaled Agile Framework SAFe

Thank you and I agree with you. It’s on my to-do list.

The Scrum Guide is deliberately vague about because there are so many environments and as a result…

It depends on the context.

A SM should ensure that everyone is on the same page, If not, the SM should help to get this…

Indeed Niklas Kari. Another solution could be that the PO delegates backlog management.

SAFe Product Owner vs Scrum Product Owner -They Are Not the Same

Thank you very much for your kind words. I agree with your assessment.

“A Scrum Master Has No Delivery Responsibility”

Hi Sukie Kang,

Hi! Thank you for your great response!

SAFe Scrum Master vs ‘Scrum’ Scrum Master — Deceptively Alike, But Totally Different

Serious Scrum Turns Two!

Serious Scrum Turns Two!

Agony — A Haiku

It’s over — A Haiku

Creepy — A Haiku

No patience — A Haiku

The teams just were asked to implement Scrum without any training or coaching.

Warzone — A Haiku

“Fixation On Story Point Velocity Nearly Destroyed Our Team”

Cacophony — Haiku

Traveller — A Haiku

Joy — A Haiku

Unsustainable — A Haiku

Birds — A Haiku

He uses Whatsapp and teams Karen.

School — A Haiku

Are you delivering value continuously? Here’s a great agile way to manage this!

Lockdown lifted – A Haiku

Hope — Haiku

Holiday

No End — A Haiku

The Scrum Guide only states that the Product Owner should accept the increment.

Thanks for sharing. We were lucky. We could repair the damage, be it at a great cost.

I always baffles me how people make wrong calls for short term gain. Thanks for sharing the story!

Netflix — A Haiku

Freedom

Stranger – A Haiku

Is it up to the team? That’s my million dollar q.

This is a trick question.

Thank you Karen Madej

Foxes — Haiku

“A Self-Organising Scrum Team Is Allowed to Abandon Scrum”

Bonding – A Haiku

Oblivious — A Haiku

Nursing Home — A Haiku

Yea there was adequate load testing.

Nowhere – A Haiku

Alzheimer — A Haiku

Kings Day — A Haiku

Awesome!!

The Dutch Government Battles Corona with Unprecedented Transparency in Their Decision-Making

Resistance — A Haiku

Exactly why I write Haikus too. They are deep thoughts packed in 17 syllables.

Redemption — Haiku

Call — A Haiku

Grown — A Haiku

This is an interesting concept in itself.

As a UX Designer, What Is My Place In Scrum?

Weariness — A Haiku

Thank you very much. I have many things in my head that I could translate into a haiku :-)

Coward — A Haiku

Indeed. It’s all about buying time.

Thank you and challenge accepted!

Distance — A Haiku

Work — A Haiku

“While I’m Forced to Work Remotely, It’s Not OK to Say I’m Struggling”

Thanks for your response.

Archaic — A Haiku

Hi,

What Is Scrum?

Seashores— A Haiku

Hi Kevin Buddaeus.

Stockpile — A Haiku

Thanks a lot for your story. The world is a brutal place. And thank you for your praise.

Short intro: Willem-Jan Ageling

Thank you.

My mother in law lives in a nursing home where a patient suffers from COVID-19.

Thank you very much Kevin Buddaeus. It means a lot to me.

Demise — A Haiku

I’m a Product Manager, What Is My Place in Scrum?

Thank you :-)

Terraces — A Haiku

I indeed did so.

Our Leaders Use A Scrum Approach To Fight COVID-19

Colours — A Haiku

Our Company Impediments Wall Went Virtual

Hi Alex Griffith, thank you for your valuable insights.

I’m not a native speaker, but both appear to be ok.

A Scrum Team Owns Its Solution

Brace for Impact

I believe this is Serious Scrum material — if you wish.

“With Scrum, Everyone should Work on Individual Tasks”

“As a Scrum Master, I’m Feeling Useless While Working Remotely”

“Scrum Doesn’t Work with Remote Teams”

Scrum Master: the Crisis Has Changed Your Team — Your Leadership Approach Has to Change Too

Your Team Has to Work Remotely. Scrum Master: Time to Step Up!

Our Serious Scrum community also is a remote team. So I see your point.

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Complexity

My Scrum Team may be Instructed to Work from Home — How to Prepare?

Thank you. That’s a great remark.

How an Interactive Sprint Review Disrupted a Team

“I Have A Problem! My Scrum Team Delivers Fewer Story Points Than The Other Two.”

A Scrum Team was a bottleneck until they decided to pick up less work

How individual performance appraisals destroyed the cohesion in a team

This Scrum Team decides to embrace self-organisation despite external pressure

A story about respect — mansplaining and other demeaning behaviour in a Scrum team

What’s misleading about it?

We ditched Scrum because it slowed us down – and turned into a feature factory

Many teams believe they are doing Scrum, but are embracing Taylorism instead

Here’s why you might not see your stakeholders at the Sprint Review

If you accept management intervening, you are part of the problem

How ignoring technical debt nearly destroyed a bank’s reputation

Impatience is my major Scrum Master flaw

11 most common reasons to use Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and how to do this with unscaled Scrum

Hi Patrick Anguet.

Thank you very much for the kind words Dana Baldwin

Absolutely. Great that you saw this. I can imagine your response.

Scrum Requires Relentless Commitment

“PRINCE2 didn’t work for us, so we went back to Scrum”

“Scrum didn’t work for us, so we went back to PRINCE2”

Thank you!

A helping attitude doesn’t equal being a servant leader!

One of the things I sometimes say to my colleagues is: “There are plenty of jobs out there.

Thank you very much Jim Mura.

Thank you Kovid Rathee.

Thank you very much Edwin Wahyudi

Hi Just Sit There. The hand outs have the following info per capability:

Thank you Himadri Debnath for you question.

Serious Scrum Weekly Update #71

I made my teams work numerous weekends — and I still regret it

Fix your Scrum with these easy steps

It’s Daily Scrum, not Stand-Up!

Thank you very much for this bit of insight in how the Scrum Master role came to be.

Hi Mike Cohn,

Hi Shaun Dunning.