Why would you want to have autonomous teams in the first place? As I see it, they have two main benefits.
Here is my attempt to visualize the roles in Scrum. Mostly influenced by Tobias Mayer’s book ‘The people’s Scrum’ and…
The Scrum Guide states that transparency is one of the three legs underpinning Scrum, with inspection and adaption being the other two. Since adaption depends on inspection and inspection depends on transparency, one could argue that transparency is the foundation of Scrum. So I…
Lean Thinking suggests that estimation is to be considered wasteful. Instead, the throughput time (lead time) for planned items is projected by using previous measurements. I always thought this was an interesting approach and today I came across this screencast about Naked Planning, a…
In my last two entries I wrote about managers being excluded from Scrum and why Scrum Masters are no Project Managers. Does this mean that management is not needed? Are all management positions obsolete in software development with Scrum? Certainly not…
Yesterday I registered for a website, and the drop down list for job titles had entries for ‘Project Manager/Scrum Master’ and ‘Developer/Engineer’. I was in a bit of a dilemma there. I am currently Scrum Master AND developer on my team. I never really…
Last week I gave a short introductory presentation about Scrum at our company meeting. I explained how the team picks the highest priority user stories from the Product Backlog, and turns them into a potentially shippable product increment during a sprint. The question arose as to who…