Eight Components of Enjoyment
You may not need passion to do a job well, but you’ve got to have fun and like what you are doing to truly excel. Learn about eight keys that could help you unlock your personal contentment zone.
The Power of Closure
Tobias Fors explains how Scrum's frequent finish lines offer a powerful sense of closure.
Scrum Smells: Talking Chickens
Importance Important Symptoms These are symptoms that a Scrum team is not being protected from outside influences: External stakeholders talk in the daily Scrums Features are selected or priorities switched outside of sprint planning meetin...
The Why of Scrum
Scrum is built on a few simple principles. Many people are exposed to the how (the mechanics) of scrum first, without the why (the principles). This document focuses on the why.
Scum versus Scrum: Emergent Behavior in Slime Molds and Software Development Teams
Single-celled organisms and software developers may not seem to have much in common. However, both of these organisms benefit from following a few simple rules that allow them to work in groups. Following these simple rules allows new behaviors an...
What's your sign? Find out what your burndown signature says about your team.
Burndown graphs are commonly used in Scrum projects to give the team an understanding of the amount of work remaining for the Sprint (or iteration). In Ken's own words:
“As a team works together, it develop its own style of creating ...
ScrumMaster: Appointed or Team-Selected
The selection of a new Scrum team's ScrumMaster can impact the success or failure of the team's Scrum adoption. Choose the wrong person and the team could face the uphill struggle of trying to become self-organizing while under the thumb...