Other Resources for Scrummasters, Product Owners and Agile Developers: podcasts, approaches, groups
Continuous delivery allows teams to reduce dramatically the transaction cost of releasing high-quality software, so you can do it much more frequently, providing a much richer and faster feedback cycle from users back to product teams. But, in turn, you need to change the way you think about managing the flow of work through the software delivery process.
The Lean UX that eliminate the contractual obligations inherent with specification documents and other deliverables is presented by Jeff Gothelf in this podcast. He defines Lean UX as “a rethinking of the software design philosophies and methodologies, moving away from the contractual obligations of spec documents and focusing really more on validating your designs through building products and experiments.
The Agile Karlskrona test is a simple self-assesement test that tries to answer the “How agile are you?” question. With 11 questions, this test should help you find where “on the road” from waterfall to agile your software development team is at the moment.
The Scrum checklist is a simple tool that provides guidelines to assess your current implementation of Scrum or help you adopting it. Created by Henrik Kniberg, the author of “Scrum from the Trenches”, they incorporate his experience gained during years helping companies getting started with Scrum and many meetings with other practitioners, trainers and Scrum coaches.
This podcast interviews Rini van Solingen about scrum and agile software development in distributed settings where the team is spread across different locations, different buildings or even different countries and continents.
The Scrum Expectation Line is defined by Zsolt Fabók as the line that follows the expectations of the Product Owner during each sprint. In this blog post, he discusses the difference between the team capacity to deliver and what the Product Owner wants in each Sprint and explains how his team deals with it.
Roy Osherove shares in this video how you can you manage a person who is always late to a stand-up meeting.