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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
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
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
Community of Practice and Interest (CoP and CoI) meetings are both formal events, therefore they need planning so the friction for participation is minimized. In a less complicated day and... Read More
Even though Communities of Interest and Practice have two very different sets of goals requiring very different approaches, organizations often combine the two ideas. The common goals are: Community of... Read More
Today we dive into the main part of Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, published in 2020 by The Pragmatic Programmers. ... Read More
Communities of Interest (CoI) are groups of people with common interests that come together to share experiences and knowledge. The community is focused on the subject rather than the people... Read More
Organizations are increasingly becoming more diverse and distributed, while at the same time pursuing mechanisms to increase collaboration between groups and consistency of knowledge and practice. Communities are one tool... Read More
Today we begin the re-read of Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, published in 2020 by The Pragmatic Programmers. I interviewed... Read More
On November 28, 2020, we began the reread of Great Big Agile by Jeff Dalton. Since jumping over quite a few chapters last week I have received a few emails... Read More
