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Cracking Groupthink In Prioritization, Scrum Master – Career or Avocation,...
In the SPaMCast 827, we will begin cracking groupthink in prioritization with a discussion of urgency vs. importance Evaluating the interplay between urgency and importance is a powerful work intake...
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The Tale of Innovatech, Starting Over, Essays and Conversations with Keis...
This week we continue with the story of Innovatech, the business novella David Herron and I are writing. Innovatech, the once a tech darling is struggling. The delivery of new functionality used to be...
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SPaMCAST 790 – It’s All About The People, A Conversation With Stefan Wolpers
SPaMCAST 790 features our interview with Stefan Wolpers. Stefan and I talked about the Scrum Master’s role in the 21st Century, his new book The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (buy a copy), and remembering...
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SPaMCAST 759 – Defining Critical Thinking, Hierarchy and Scrum Masters,...
The SPaMCAST 759 continues our exploration of critical thinking. This week we search for a consumable definition. If you can’t hold a definition in your mind it is hard to contemplate the impact and...
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SPaMCAST 735 – Books We Re-read, An Inexperienced Scrum Master, Essays and...
Over the years we have explored a wide range of books on Saturdays. Sometimes our re-reads reflect the real world outside software development. For example, in 2018 we re-read Bad Blood, Secrets and...
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SPaMCAST 715 – Work Entry or Work Intake, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and...
Listen Now! A funny thing happened on the way to the essay this week. I was distracted by feedback from a colleague on a workshop Jeremy Willets and I developed and delivered this week. We discuss why...
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SPaMCAST 711 – Why Re-read Saturday, Team Leaders In Scrum, Essays and...
Listen Now This week we make a quick side trip. Earlier this week I was asked why I “did” the Re-read Saturday column. Today, I offer a short explanation and highlight the experiments I am running as...
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SPaMCAST 705 – Flow, Agile Basics, Scrum Master Not Your Admin, Essays and...
In the SPaMCAST 705 we stay with the basics and define the term flow. I recently listened to a conversation where the term flow was used 30ish times in 30 minutes. Each use of the term meant something...
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SPaMCAST 671 – Is Your Scrum Master The Problem, I Have A WIP Problem,...
I deviated from the plan this week and recorded a conversation with my colleague, mentor, and friend Anthony Mersino (Anthony was last on the podcast SPaMCAST 583 http://bit.ly/3aJMw51 ). Our chat,...
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Re-Read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 16, Final Thoughts
We have read or re-read Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems by Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley cover-to-cover, if you don’t count the index at the back of the book (and I...
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Re-Read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 15, Chapter 15: The Sprint...
Chapter 15 is the final chapter in Fixing Your Scrum by Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley. Next week I will sum up my thoughts on the book and the lessons I have derived during the re-read. We will also...
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Re-Read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 14, Chapter 14: The Sprint Review
I have heard the sprint review called everything including a demo, demo day, show and tell and sprint review. If teams and organizations do the sprint review well, I don’t care if you call it jello....
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SPaMCAST 650 – Work Entry Patterns, Many Types of User Stories, Essays and...
Work entry, in its simplest form, is the steps needed for work to be triaged to ensure that it is the right work, that it is ready to be worked on, and the priority of the work. This week we talk...
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Re-Read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 13, Chapter 13: Deconstructing The...
At the end of every sprint, a team should have a deployable product increment. There are a ton of ideas packed into that single phrase. In this chapter, Mr. Ripley and Miller focus on the concepts of...
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Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 12, Chapter 12: Reclaiming The...
This chapter deals with one of the crux issues that almost every Scrum master or agile coach faces at some time. The daily meeting has become an almost ubiquitous signal to the world that a team or a...
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Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 11, Chapter 11: The Sprint Backlog
The sprint backlog is the work teams do on a day-to-day basis. A sprint backlog is a tool that the team uses to guide their activities. The backlog is a combination of outputs of other activities such...
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Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 10, Chapter 10: Sprint Planning
Chapter 10 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, dives into planning.. Sprint planning one of the major events in Scrum. All sprints...
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Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 9, Chapter 9: Thinking In Sprints
Chapter 9 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, tackles the sprint. To paraphrase the Beach Boys Everybody’s gone sprintin’ Sprinting’...
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Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 7: Chapter 7: Embracing The Scrum...
In SPaMCAST 642 Vasco Duarte made the startling statement that a Scrum Master will be your next CEO. Chapter 7 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and...
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Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 5: Chapter 6: The Development Team
This week we tackle the second role in Scrum, the development team. The development team covers the people that aren’t the scrum master or product owner — the group of people that actually takes an...
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