a Scrum Master is not seen as a full time position. Bless their tiny little hearts, managers don’t seem to understand that transitioning to agile, especially for silo’d distributed teams with different cultural norms is non-trivial. They will make room...
I die a little bit inside when people say “should we do Agile or not”. The assumptions behind this question are all wrong: That there is one way to “be Agile”, that learning from Agile methods like Scrum requires that you use everything in those methods, and that there are good r...
First, do ajob analysisfor your Scrum Master. I have met teams who needed an agile project manager because no one was in the same place. I have met teams who needed an account manager, because they were consultants. I wrote about this problem inWhich “Scrum Master” Are You Hiring?I ...
Scrum boards are a visual tool used in agile project management to help teams track and manage their work. A Scrum board typically consists of a physical or digital board divided into columns that represent different stages of the project, such as “To Do”, “In Progress”, and “Done”....
Generally, it is only the development teams that work with the Agile mindset, whilst the rest of the organization continues to work in the old fashioned way. If the upper management do not have Agile mindset, the organization as a whole might only be practicing Agile for namesake. ...