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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 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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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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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 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 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 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 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 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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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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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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