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Pro-Bono

The Fractal Within a Sprint of Large-Scale Scrum March 13, 2022

A fractal is a structure in which, when you look closer, you will discover self-similarity at different scales. (wikipedia). Zoom In and Out Scrum Fix The Empirical Process Control In Picture A, you can find a typical representation of a Sprint in Scrum, which is, perhaps, a misunderstanding of both iterative development and empirical process. […]

terry

The harmfulness of Scrum Master double roles and what you can do about it January 5, 2022

The harmfulness of Scrum Master double roles and what you can do about it The other day I had an intense conversation with managers about the topic of double roles of a Scrum Master. One of the managers was also a Scrum Master. He and his superior defended the viewpoint that it is a great […]

wolfgang-steffens

Playing with words September 11, 2020

Harmful Agile Adoptions by Playing with Words This is an ad-hoc post written out of pure frustration with many so-called AGILE adoptions. Everywhere I go, new fancy names get adopted for old concepts without any behavioral change. The most common is a mixture of Scrum terms and “spotify model” terms. It would be good if […]

basvodde

The path of least resistance towards one backlog August 18, 2020

(Originally published by Lv Yi on Oct 3, 2019) How could we create a path of least resistance towards one backlog? A collection of multiple backlogs is NOT one backlog Assuming that multiple teams are working on the same product, the following is a typical conversation between me and a friend in the community or […]

yi-lv

Reasoning before measuring August 4, 2020

(Originally published by Lv Yi on May 7, 2020) I often get this question – what do you measure while adopting Agile? The conversation usually goes like this: [me] What is it about adopting Agile? [him] … doing Scrum. [me] What effect do you expect after adopting Agile? [him] higher efficiency. [me] How would you […]

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