Ricardo Vercesi

A scrum master is a servant leader, and part of that paradoxically inverted leadership role is permission to make and acknowledge your own mistakes too. Lead by example. Be confident when you are wrong. Use it as an opportunity to learn. Vulnerability is strength!

What is the smallest thing that could add value (and make sense)? A better standup? A better retrospective? Inviting a customer to a demo? Pairing for a day? Agreeing to get something into product in a couple days? Try that. Make one thing make sense as in “wow, I can see how that created value”.

…ity. Astute observers quickly realize that agility on the team level is but one part of the puzzle. Even when Agile on the team-level makes sense, you need that other part to make sense. The rest of the org was probably the blocker in the first place.

…tegy involving justified cut corners (that eventually tanked), etc. We were literally at a impasse. For many, Agile is doing sprints and using Jira. So, they’re already “doing” it. This other stuff is some sort of fringe cult that only works in blog posts.

…e to be the same. Give ten novelists a plot summary and they will each write you a different story. Give ten programmers a functional specification and each one will produce something unique, an expression of their own voice as a programmer.

Trump ruined Tic Tacs. His son ruined Skittles. This is a war on candy.