In my previous post, I mentioned that I’ve been getting a fair number of questions lately that go like this:
What does Scrum say about [[ something that Scrum does not prescribe anything for ]]??
Questions are always good. I think I’m dealing with some clients who are a bit more self-aware, Continue reading Scrum is Chess, Part II
I’ve been getting a fair number of questions lately that go like this:
What does Scrum say about [[ something that Scrum does not prescribe anything for ]]??
I love Schwaber’s chess analogy: you either play chess, or you do not. In the same way that chess does not succeed or fail, Scrum does not succeed or fail. Knowing the rules does not make you a Grandmaster or effective Scrum practitioner; strategy, practice, mentorship, etc. *may* make you a Grandmaster or effective Scrum practitioner. You get the idea.
Scaling Scrum is something that is not prescribed by the rules of Scrum**. But I’d like to tie scaling to the chess analogy.
Continue reading Scrum is chess, scaling Scrum is…
If we can agree that as the length “in the back” of a mullet haircut grows, if the length “in the front” stays the same, the wearer has “more mullet”
AND
If we can agree Continue reading Mulletude Theorem and the Ultimate Mullet
I came out of Giovanni Bassi’s excellent train-the-trainer Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master class with some memorable and useful quotes.
The plan is useless. Planning is essential. – Giovanni
EDIT: I’ve learned this is not Giovanni’s 🙂
Plans are worthless. Planning is essential. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Are you scared of not meeting a deadline? Scared of not delivering what the customer actually wants?
If you’re scared, you’re not agile. – Giovanni
Why not generalize Ambler’s “avoiding speculative ideas that are likely to change in favor of stable information” best practice to all areas, not just documentation?
When is the last responsible moment to do this? – Giovanni
Further assertions that engineering and manufacturing metaphors only hurt our industry, as I am and will be talking about in the Agile Modeling and Emergent Architecture topic here:
We’re not building bridges, we’re more like lawyers arguing a case. – Giovanni
Do you have someone who objects to Pair Programming on the premise that it will “cut productivity in half” ??
Are they programmers, or typists? – Felipe Rodrigues, a colleague of Giovanni’s
I’ve used a term for the “aggregate root” concept in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) for many years now. It makes the concept easy to grasp, methinks. Continue reading My Name for DDD Aggregate Roots