Tag: scrum
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Scrum Beyond the Rulebook: A Review of A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game
German edition: Scrum – Ein Buch über Zusammenarbeit Do we really need another Scrum book? That was my first reaction. What changed my mind was the name on the cover. Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, wrote it together with James O. Coplien, an early influence on Scrum and co-founder of the Hillside Group, the software…
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Checklist for Scrum Masters
You are a Scrum Master and you have the feeling, that your team “actually works fine” OR You are a Scrum Master and you would like to check what else there is to do to help your team to improve? OR You are a Scrum Master and you are looking for confirmation that you are…
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SWOT Matrix: Validating results after 4 months
Have you ever used the SWOT Matrix? Did the results bring about a decision? And then? Have you used the results after some time to validate your decision again? This post describes how I used a SWOT Matrix to help a team to try working with Scrum. After 4 months we validated what we thought…
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Check-In Activity for Agile Retrospectives
Fortunately retrospectives are already a standard at our company now. Not only our developers teams, but also our sales team, our team assistents and as of late also our management (surprisingly, the last.. :)) have regular retrospectives. Because it has become standard to have retrospectives there is also the chance of falling into a dull…