Serious Scrum Meetup: Cold Day, Warm Night, New Scrum, Hold Tight!
Liberating Structures Poland Tag Team with Serious Scrum
Hold Tight!
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released a new version of the Scrum Guide on November 18th this year. I bet you heard already!
Here at Serious Scrum, we organised an event to help us discover changes to the guide and to learn about the changes together.
We scheduled our event for the day after the guide update was released. Willem-Jan Ageling, Maciej Jarosz and Paddy Corry organised and hosted together, and we had some really great chats and discussions.
At the time, we may have underestimated how truly international the event was, so I would like to show appreciation to everyone who overcame timezone challenges to attend: thank you!
The event was great fun and it was excellent to virtually meet and chat. It was also a fast way to learn from each other about changes to that little document that generates so much discussion and interpretation: the Scrum Guide.
In this post, as well as sharing what happened, we are including a call to action to you: would you like to attend a re-run of this event to learn more about changes to the Scrum Guide?
What we discovered.
The purpose of our small event was discovery: we wanted to know more about what is new or different in the Scrum Guide 2020.
Willem-Jan Ageling introduced and welcomed everyone, then we organised ourselves on a call into groups of four. Once organised, we broke out into our groups for around ten minutes at a time to explore, and then re-grouped together for around five minutes at a time to regroup and share.
For the Liberating Structure fans out there, we were aiming for something like a string of 1–2–4-all, but it was a little more like 4-all-4-all-4-all :)
There were 3 rounds like this:
- Has anything changed with the Events?
- Has anything changed with the Roles?
- Has anything changed with the Artifacts?
- Anything else?
The event was fast and fun: there were lively discussions in breakout rooms, and we all got to learn from each other in the main call.
It would be futile to try to summarise all the discussions here, so I will include the team boards with what they discovered. Here’s what our teams found:
Has anything changed with the Roles?
Has anything changed with the Events?
Has anything changed with the artifacts?
Many perspectives
So that’s what our groups found. What do you think?
Keep an eye out on Serious Scrum for different perspectives from writers and editors here on what has changed in the Scrum Guide.
Next steps
We are also working on a Facilitator’s Guide for this event and would like to help others learn how to run events like this in organisations, to spread the word and help people understand the recent changes to the Guide.
However, our question to you is: would you like to attend another event like this?
Please come let us know on Slack, or in a response to this post. We are more than happy to re-run this event if there is demand!
