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Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 8 – Chapter 8: Management

Chapter 8 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller tackles management. The gap between labor and management is an age-old problem.... Read More

Teams: Organizational Attributes

Teams don’t live in a vacuum. Every team is an intersection of boundaries of all sorts of organizations. Organizations facilitate teams to a greater or lesser extent. In the workplace,... Read More

Teams: Behavioral Attributes

The second category of attributes that are important for teams to be effective is behavioral attributes. These attributes describe how individuals and teams as a whole act. While the first... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 7: Chapter 7: Embracing The Scrum Master Role

In SPaMCAST 642 Vasco Duarte made the startling statement that a Scrum Master will be your next CEO. Chapter 7 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems,... Read More

Teams: Skills Attributes

Most outcomes in software development and information technology are reflections of team activities. Whether coding a new function or provisioning a server people work together to achieve a goal. The... Read More

Teams: The Heart And Soul Of Work

Teams are the most common grouping of people in agile. I do not think I have been to conferences, in-person or virtual, without being told how important teams are to... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 6: Chapter 6: The Development Team

This week we tackle the second role in Scrum, the development team. The development team covers the people that aren’t the scrum master or product owner — the group of... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 5: Chapter 5 – The Product Backlog

Chapter 5 of  Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller addresses the product backlog. The authors start this chapter with a great... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 4: Chapter 4 – The Product Owner

Today we dive into Chapter 4 of  Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller. I have argued that the role of the... Read More

Chapter 3 – Breaking Bad Scrum with a Value-Driven Approach

Today we dive into Chapter 3 of  Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, published in 2020 by The Pragmatic Programmers. You... Read More