Scrum Agile Project Management

Articles and videos on creating and managing cross-functional Scrum teams: scrum master, product owner and development team.

A Great ScrumMaster Can Handle One Team at a Time

August 31, 2011 0

“An adequate ScrumMaster can handle two or three teams at a time. If you’re content to limit your role to organizing meetings, enforcing timeboxes, and responding to the impediments people explicitly report, you can get by with part time attention to this role. The team will probably still exceed the baseline, pre-Scrum expectation at your organization, and probably nothing catastrophic will happen.

Full-time Scrum

August 31, 2011 0

in this blog post, John Piekos explains how the ScrumMaster and Product Owner roles in Scrum are much more demanding than the Project and Product Manager roles of traditional project approaches. With frequent “potentially shippable product increments”, he believes that full-time effort is required from all members in order to be successful.

Symptoms of Mechanical Agile

August 30, 2011 0

The five stories presented in this article, mostly based on real life, might help you see how Agile can become mechanical and what you should do about this. You will also learn some solutions that could help to solve all five symptoms. We need to allow people to act like people and not try to force them into a machine model that we have created for them.

Agile Team Performance

August 1, 2011 0

This video explores the creation of a performance system that not only adheres to Agile principles, but actively promotes maturity in applying them to the delivery of measurable business and user value.

Collaboration Is Risky

June 8, 2011 0

In this blog post, Whitney Johnson shares four simple steps to build trust with your collaborator.

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