Being Agile, Doing Scrum: The Most Popular Scrum and Agile YouTube Channels
This is another in a series of posts aimed at helping Scrum Masters coach “team members in self-management and cross-functionality []including [l]eading, training, and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption.”
With a simple cut and paste, Scrum Masters can share this post weekly or once per sprint, concurrently adding some frivolity with several fun facts and content.
Note: Some posts come with an intro to provide background and additional information/tips, followed by the ‘cut/paste’ content that can be shared with the team.
Note: There are lots of fun facts and content. Feel free to pick and choose what to include/omit.
Check back next week for another post, and more content to share!
[For an index of all Being Agile, Doing Scrum posts click here.]
Background:
There has never been more of a focus on visual learning, driven primarily by COVID and the global transition to remote education and work, but we all learn differently, as highlighted in this infographic from Funders and Founders:
As a result, Scrum Masters need to help educate their team using a variety of methods. We have focused on the best Agile and Scrum podcasts, and certifications, this week we focus on visual, auditory, and copy based learners with the top ten YouTube channels centered on Agile and Scrum, (based on subscriber count).
Cut/Paste:
The Scrum Guide states:
“The Scrum Master serves the Scrum Team in several ways, including: Leading, training, and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption.”
We all learn in different ways, which creates a challenge: how should Scrum Masters lead, train, and coach the team?
We have focused on the best Agile and Scrum podcasts, and certifications. This week we highlight video based content, and list the top ten (based on subscriber count) YouTube channels centering on our favorite topics.
If you have a favorite Agile or Scrum YouTube channel that isn’t listed please share it!
Subscribers: 19.7K
Language: English
Most Viewed Video: “User Stories: What They Are, How To Write Them, And Why They Work”:
Subscribers: 22K
Language: English
Most Viewed Video: “A Day in the Life of a Scrum Master/What Does a Scrum Master do All Day”:
Subscribers: 23.1K
Language: French
Most Viewed Video: “Formation Scrum Master Gratuite”:
7. Scrum Life
Subscribers: 32K
Language: French
Most Viewed Video: “Scrum Guide en Français — Formation Scrum”:
6. Agile Digest
Subscribers: 35.5k
Language: English
Most Viewed Video: “Understanding Scrum Metrics and KPIs — Agile Digest”:
5. Mark Shead
Subscribers: 37.2K
Language: English
Most Viewed Video: “What is Agile?”:
4. Scrum.org
Subscribers: 38.3K
Language: English
Most Viewed Video: “A Brief Overview of the Scrum Framework”:
Subscribers: 40.7K
Language: English
Most Viewed Video: “Scrum 101 — Part 1 — Scrum Basics”:
2. Agil Es
Subscribers: 55.7K
Language: Spanish
Most Viewed Video: “Introduction to Scrum”:
Subscribers: 71.2K
Language: English
Most Viewed Video: “Scrum vs Kanban — What’s the Difference?”:
Inspirational Quote:
“It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.” — Allen Klein
Fascinating Facts:
Identical twins have different fingerprints.
Only 1 in 3 sets of twins are identical; the remaining two-thirds are considered fraternal, essentially siblings born at the same time who may or may not look alike. But even if identical twins seemingly appear as carbon copies, they do have some differences — such as their fingerprints. The patterns on our fingertips develop in utero, and how they look for the rest of our lives is heavily affected by our environment before birth. Blood pressure, umbilical cord length, and how fast a fetus grows all impact the final print design. Because identical twins share the same DNA, it’s likely their prints will be similar, though they’ll never be duplicates. In the history of fingerprint studies, no two people have ever had matching marks, including twins.
Word of the Day:
Chinwag — Have a chat.
Example: “Come over after work, and we’ll chinwag about everything going on with you!”
National Day Calendar: July 28th
World Conservation Day
World Hepatitis Day
National Waterpark Day
National Waterpark Day
National Talk In An Elevator Day
Buffalo Soldiers Day
National Milk Chocolate Day
National System Administrator Appreciation Day
Born On This Day:
Beatrix Potter: English children’s author and illustrator (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), born in London. (1866–1943)
Lucy Burns: American suffragist (National Woman’s Party) and women’s rights advocate, born in Brooklyn, New York. (1879–1966)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: American First Lady (1961–63), born in Southampton, New York. (1929–1994)
Bill Bradley: American Basketball Hall of Fame forward (NBA C’ship 1970, 73; NBA All-Star 1973; NY Knicks), and politician (Democratic US Senator 1979–97), born in Crystal City, Missouri. (1943)
Jim Davis: American cartoonist and creator of the comic strips “Garfield” and “U.S. Acres”, born in Marion, Indiana. (1945)
Hugo Chávez: President of Venezuela (1998–2013), born in Sabaneta, Barinas State, Venezuela. (1954–2013)
On This Day In History:
Defeat of the Spanish Armada: English set alight eight fireships, with pitch, brimstone, gunpowder and tar, and cast them downwind towards the closely anchored vessels of the Spanish Armada, scattering the armada. (1588)
US Secretary of State William H. Seward: Announces 14th Amendment ratified by states, grants citizenship to ex-slaves. (1868)
A petition organized by Kate Sheppard, demanding women’s suffrage: Delivered to New Zealand’s parliament; signed by over 25,000 women, a 5th of the adult European female population. (1893)
Silent Parade: Organized by James Weldon Johnson of 10,000 African-Americans who march on 5th Ave in NYC to protest against lynching. (1917)
“White Zombie”: 1st feature length zombie film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi is released in the US. (1932)
Benito Mussolini: Italian Fascist dictator resigns. (1943)
Nuclear Bombing of Nagasaki: Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9. (1945)
Alice in Wonderland: Walt Disney releases animated musical film “Alice In Wonderland”, featuring Kathryn Beaumont, J. Pat O’Malley, Ed Wynn, and Sterling Holloway and songs by Sammy Fain and Bob Hilliard. (1951)
“On the Waterfront”: Directed by Elia Kazan starring Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1955). (1954)
LBJ: Sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000). (1965)
Darryl Strawberry: NY Yankee hits his 300th HR. (1996)
US Senate: Vote for “skinny” repeal of the Affordable Care Act (‘Obamacare’) fails 51–49 when John McCain casts deciding vote against. (2017)
