Sub-Scrum
On the left the sub-sprint board for the 20 point userstory that is on the main board on the right Today I encountered a very interesting situation. I named it Sub-Scrum. A small team is working on a...
View ArticleA dog will guide you
We probably all know a little about the term DevOps. It is said to be the next best thing. Where Scrum doesn’t provide, DevOps does. Basically it’s nothing new. The goal is to maximize the...
View ArticleTo Scrum or not to Scrum
A good colleague of mine came up with a good idea. Or better said, a good mindset. For a while now in Scrum there is something known as Scrumbut. It’s like the Pino in Prince2 (Prince in name only). We...
View ArticleAgile Scrum. What else?
Image source: www.clearwaterpools.co.za Probably the first indicator that lets me know as an Agile Coach that people don’t really know about the Scrum Framework or the Agile mindset is the way they...
View ArticleHave fun with Lego
It’s not the first time I write about this. Maybe I’m very enthusiastic about this. Maybe I just want to tell you about this because it is plain and simple fun but very effective. Doing your meeting...
View ArticleBe the change
People hire me as a Scrum coach to help them to make changes. Often these people work at companies that want to work with an Agile Framework, often Scrum. In many cases when I have the first talks...
View ArticleYou need to have a SIT
So how do you get things to move within a larger organization? As I mentioned before just hiring an Agile Coach doesn’t do the trick. He or she can only bring change on those parts where people are...
View ArticlePlease the customer, fix the scope.
The first couple times this happened I was not prepared. We thought we were doing the perfect agile project and worked together as a perfect team. The Product Owner was committed and really into agile....
View ArticleMake sacrifices if you want to change
“We only do scrum where and when there are problems within the company” the guy said on the other end of the table.”Otherwise we just keep doing what we are doing”. I almost dragged his ass across the...
View ArticleDon’t start with the vacancy, start with the question
“Hi we want to hire a Agile coach with LeSS or SAFe Certification. He or she will provide our teams with some training.” Well I hate to bring this to you, but this does not work. The first big...
View ArticleDon’t hire a ScrumMaster
The Scrum Master is a role and not a job title, so companies posting a vacancy for Scrum Master are on the wrong track. Earlier we talked about the idea to first answer the “why” question and then...
View ArticleMore with LeSS
For a while now I’m coaching and training Scrum. And for a while I had the feeling that, even though Scrum works, it is very hard to get it to work in a larger environment. so I needed something extra....
View ArticleWith law our land shall rise, but it will perish with lawlessness
The Agile Manifesto was written in February of 2001 by seventeen independent-minded software practitioners . While the participants didn’t agree about much, they found consensus around four main...
View ArticleTrust the bike
A while ago I read a parody of the Agile Manifesto at a Agile Coach Gathering. Myself and other coaches laughed about this. It is often that when agile coaches meet that we laugh about things. And...
View ArticleStop starting with Scrum
Don’t worry: I am not going to jump on the “agile is dead and a failure” bandwagon. I do not want you to stop working with Scrum. I just want you to stop starting with it. A lot of companies realize...
View ArticleOur agile scan is zero. Great!
At some point in every company that is doing some sort of change towards Lean or Agile, the big question is asked. “Are we agile or Lean enough?”. So coaches start being busy with all sorts of scans to...
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