Custom Planning Poker Cards
Planning Poker cards make great promotional items. They are both fun and useful, and many companies freely distribute Planning Poker decks as part of their marketing efforts. But you don’t need some brand name deck to make Planning Poker fun and interesting. A creative idea, a printer and some stiff paper is all you need … Read more
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 … Read more
Story-Time! The hidden Scrum meeting
Is your team having difficulty forecasting when a project will be completed? Do you have a large number of un-estimated Stories in your product backlog? Are your planning meetings several days long and full of confrontation? If so, it could be that you’re forgetting to “groom” your product backlog.
The European tour
It’s been a busy few months with clients, training and the occasional blog posting. To add to all this activity, I’ve agree to do a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training tour of Europe. This is going to be exciting because I haven’t been to Europe for over 10 years. It’ll be an interesting contrast after having … Read more
“Competing on the basis of speed” by Mary Poppendiecks at Google TechTalk
Here’s another excellent Google TechTalk. This one is given by Mary Poppendieck, author of “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers” and “Implementing Lean Software Development“.
