This is part 2 of “A retrospective about a dead Scrum Master”. Click here to read part 1.
During his first days on the project, the Scrum Master silently observed the people and their activities on the project. He roamed the floors and worked the phones to connect with all the people working on the project. He learned that 16 people, most of them distributed across several locations (and time zones), had been working on the project for 6 months. He was told that only very little functionality has been …
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Recently, a couple of agile fellows and I discussed why we see many Scrum projects fail. Here are some reasons we witnessed or experienced ourselves during our work on so called Scrum projects. The purpose of this list which is by no means exhaustive is to help you avoid making the same mistakes when you start out using Scrum on your projects:
Adjusting Scrum to organizations instead of adapting the organization to Scrum
Adapting Scrum even before it is applied correctly
Blaming Scrum for the issues being surfaced (”Scrum does not work because …“)
Changing …
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Season’s Greetings to the entire Scrum Community!
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks to my buddy Christian Schweizer for this amazing light painting. He made this photo with a digital camera, autotimer, long exposure and a pocket lamp. No image editing at all. Again, thanks Christian!
To read more about light painting, click here: http://www.diyphotography.net/painting_with_light
Scrum Ignorance »
There is an interesting discussion going on in the Scrum discussion group on XING: The question is why organizations call projects Scrum projects although they seem to have no intention to use Scrum at all. Some people in the discussion suspect this a trend to make projects sound modern and appealing. I absolutely agree and think this is clear evidence of growing Scrum ignorance.
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If you like to learn why up-front planning does not work very well and how agile planning works instead, I highly recommend reading Mike Cohn’s “Agile Estimating and Planning“.
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