Kane Mar

Adventures in Agile Software Development and Scrum

Report from the Scrum Trainers Gathering (1/4)

Update: part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.

About two weeks ago, a Scrum Trainers’ Gathering was held in Boston. About 25 Certified Scrum Trainers (CSTs) from all over the world gathered for a great two-day event, discussing training exercises, different approaches to training, and other related issues. There were a number of sessions that I found to be of particular interest and in the next few weeks I will write about three of these sessions including Boris’ Ball Point Game (part 2), Jens’ Written Specification exercise (part 3), and Lowell’s Affinity Estimating (part 4).
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Filed under: Agile Software Development, Scrum, Training

Collaborative decision making and the impact of Scrum

Team self-organization is one of the key principles [1] of Scrum and its introduction to an organization raises a number of interesting questions around decisions and decision making. Specifically, the introduction of Scrum leads to consensus-based decisions by the team. I believe that the consensus model of decision is superior the an authoritarian model and results in superior decisions and better information.
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Filed under: Cultural Change, Organisation Change, Project Management

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