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2020 Scrum Guide – addition of commitments to the artifacts

2020 Scrum Guide – addition of commitments to the artifacts

The words “commit” and “commitment” feature prominently in the 2020 Scrum Guide, and it’s not just about the artifacts. “The Scrum Team commits to achieving its goals and to supporting each other… when the Scrum Team and the people they work with embody these values, the empirical Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life building trust.”  […]
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How to measure success? Is it even possible?

How to measure success? Is it even possible?

How to measure success? Is it even possible? Just to set the scene, I haven’t figured this out yet. I can tell you my story, in all its ugliness. It’s based on a real story, but it’s changed significantly from reality to protect the innocent. I hope you still find my account useful. I worked […]
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Introducing Kanban for Complexity Kanplexity

Introducing Kanban for Complexity™ (Kanplexity™)

  Background Some teams of knowledge workers (En.wikipedia.org, 2019) work primarily on complex problems. Scrum operates in the complex problem domain, so it can be a natural choice. Picture this context Single team Scrum is in use by many teams of different initiatives Having genuinely tried, some teams are unable to use Scrum, as they cannot […]
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Mirror mirror on the wall…

John Coleman does an opinion piece on thus use of scaling patterns or none – views are his own Consider this blog post as background for future posts. It has a lot of detail, and you might need to carve out some time, grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable before reading this. I […]
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Kanbaning your scrum part 3 of 3

Kanbaning your Scrum (3 of 3)

You might remember my posts on “Professional Scrum with Kanban – Don’t just limit WIP – optimise it! (posts 1 of 3 and 2 of 3)”. I used Mike Burrows’ Featureban (https://www.agendashift.com/featureban) and Andy Carmichael’s additional design, with some tuning. “Daily”, team members flipped coins. Heads or Tails, heads was a good day, tails not so good, and […]
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Kanbaning your Scrum part 2 of 3

Kanbaning your Scrum (part 2 of 3)

You might remember https://www.valueglide.com/blog/kanbaning-your-scrum. We optimized the amount of work in progress for simple/obvious work. Now let’s make it a bit more complicated. You might remember I ran a simulation with teams around the world over a number of years. I used Mike Burrows’ Featureban (https://www.agendashift.com/featureban) and Andy Carmichael’s additional design, with some tuning. “Daily”, team […]
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Look familiar? #advanced

Look familiar? #advanced

Greetings from my trip from London to Cincinnati, where I’ll talk about scaling/descaling, growing good sustainable agility and so on. If you’re around the Cincinnati area, you’d be crazy to miss the conference.  There are some rockstar keynotes. There are some great speakers, Ellen Gottesdiener is likely to steal my thunder as Ellen is on stage at the same time […]
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