The Scrum Master profession spans wide variety of skills, knowledge and experience. Scrum Masters try to create high performing teams and drive organisational change. Although we mainly focus on the framework and the process, it’s people we work with all the time. Surprisingly our profession focuses predominantly on developing cognitive intelligence (IQ). We need to learn to appreciate the value of emotional Intelligence (EQ) for becoming great Scrum Masters. Continue reading
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The Feature Team Adoption Map Explained
When talking about LeSS adoptions, the Feature Team adoption map (FTAM) is often brought up as one of its powerful tools. Although FTAM is described in the LeSS book (1), and gets a great deal of attention in most LeSS practitioner classes, it plays a less important role in LeSS and LeSS Huge adoptions than we might suspect. However, it is a valuable tool that can be used for various purposes. Continue reading
The 5 Supporting Elements of Scrum
In Scrum classes we often ask the attendees to draw a picture of the Scrum framework, in order learn what their current understanding of the framework is. In many cases people are close to remembering the three roles, three artifacts and five events. But they also bring forward many related elements that are important or even indispensable to support the Scrum framework, but are not roles, artifacts nor events.
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Speaking in Bristol!
Doing some Causal loop Diagramming with my buddy Emile Silvis at the Agile in Bristol november 2018.
The Elements of Scrum
Check out this new card deck I created!
I was bored with receiving these poker cards after a training (no offense, but i have too many of them). I thought it would make more sense to get stuff that helps you learning the Scrum framework.
Go get a deck or order a personalized batch for your company at scrumcards.org
Mix-it Lyon 2018: With Love and Pancakes
I am in the Lyon airport, waiting for a rescheduled flight to Amsterdam. This gives me some time to share my thoughts on speaking at Mixit 2018.
I have been to Lyon together with Emile Silvis, since we were invited to host a workshop on System’s thinking, making Causal loop diagrams. In addition to that, I gave a lecture on Large Scale Scrum.
The conference is organised in the main building of the campus of the CPE (Ecole supérieure de Chimie, Physique et Electronique). Continue reading
Scrum Master inflation alert!
This article is directed to all who think that being a Scrum Master is inferior, and therefore think (ab)using the term “Agile Coach” is justified.
Note. A serious warning before you read on: If you consider yourself to be an Agile Coach and you are not up to digesting some painful transparency about your role, please stop here. Continue reading
Project management day Kiev
On may 19 2018: Implementing Large Scale Scrum (real life stories).
I will be focusing on near-shoring and LeSS.
Definition of done: the Swiss army knife of Scrum
Most of the concepts in Scrum are easy to understand but extremely difficult to master. This is due to the fact that Scrum is designed for perfect, and reality never is. The same principle applies to the Definition of Done.When we start up teams, we help them to set a Definition of Done (DoD).
Teams are taught the DoD is an instrument that will provide them transparency in two ways:
- understanding what the effort of work is, considering all the tasks that need to be undertaken by the team before work can be marked as “done”.
- understanding what “done” means when an item is inspected at the end of the sprint.