Videos on Scrum and Agile Project Management
Nexus is a framework for scaled Scrum developed by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber and Scrum.org community. It addresses the most painful problems of scaled development – dealing with dependencies and building ‘Done’ integrated software every iteration.
In small Scrum teams, it’s common for people to share roles such as Scrum Master / Tester / Dev but in a lot of cases there are conflicting interests. How can a Tester adequately test when as a Scrum Master the highest priority is assisting the team to deliver?
As an Agile Coach or Scrum Master do you want to add energy to your team that looks not enthusiastic or resists change? Is it possible to cause harm to your team even with proper Agile coaching? Yes, if you are working with tired, exhausted or even burned-out teams, they do need special treatment, usually counterintuitive to the coaches.
The first principle of the Agile Manifesto tells us that we have to deliver value: “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. However, when faced with seemingly endless choices and a world moving at an increasing speed, how do you evaluate strategic options with speed and precision?
Traditional performance reviews don’t improve performance and are an impediment to collaboration and Agile team self-organisation. What if Performance Management was the responsibility of the whole team? How would that look, would it work and could it be more effective?Agile makes this possible.
Hard time to stick with decisions made on Retrospective? Not sure if your dedication to the Scrum team’s working agreements is bringing fruits you expected? Suspect that your team is barking up the wrong tree? A life of an Agile software development team in not easy. Regardless of method of choice a team needs to fulfill many often contradicting needs still retaining place for self-improvement.
Even though Scrum is still the most adopted agile framework in the market, its rules, roles, events and artifacts are frequently misunderstood. We commonly apply this framework without understanding the purpose that stands behind each element, losing its main benefits. This presentation focuses on the Scrum Events, their real purpose, common pitfalls as well as provide hints and propose experiments to optimize the benefits you can get from them.
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