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Poking at any entrenched framework always elicits a response; almost all of the responses are well thought out and reasonable. In the past five essays, we have explored two major... Read More
Meeting time in Scrum, by the book, is fairly linear. A one week sprint and four-week sprint have roughly the same percentage of time spent in ceremonies/meetings. Nearly every Scrum... Read More
This week we begin Part 2 of Daniel Doiron and Steve Tendon’s Tame your Work Flow. Part 2 transitions us from improving wait time and flow efficiency and begins a... Read More
In whatever flavor of agile that you are doing, meetings and ceremonies are lightning rods for resistance. In response, numerous approaches for improving the scenario have sprung up. Most of... Read More
A brief interlude to our focus on meetings in agile frameworks to discuss the use of the word overhead. Once upon a time, my grandfather wanted me to be an accountant,... Read More
This week we tackle Chapter 4 of Tame your Work Flow, The chapter is titled “Utility of Flawed Mental Models.” The goal of the chapter is to make sure we... Read More
One of the most common complaints about using Scrum is the amount of meeting time. In How Much Meeting Time, we used the meeting length recommendations from the Scrum Guide... Read More
If you have ever performed as a Scrum Master or agile coach you have been asked about the overhead in Scrum. Overhead is almost always a codeword for meetings where... Read More
Announcements Happy Saturday! In the United States, today is the 4th of July, which is Independence Day. Personally, more importantly, it is my wife’s birthday. This is the long way... Read More
When I introduced the logistics of the re-read of Thinking Fast and Slow on April 20, 2019, I anticipated that we would complete in 42 weeks. Doing the math, we... Read More
