We’ve all been there. You just about think you’ve got your team in a nice rhythm and your burn-downs are starting to look a bit less painful to slide down but, objectively speaking, your team capacity is pants.
You look at drag and it’s bad and getting worse.
The first thing I’d take a look at for [...]
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Handling live support in a Scrum team
Thomas – my new best mate…
So I’m now a licensed by Thomas International to deliver, read, interpret and generally use to my advantage their Personal Profile Analysis reports. I’ve finished the training, searched my soul and bared my flaws and frustrations in front of a “support group” (read:class) of like minded HR professionals…
Oh, hang on a minute, I’m not an [...]
Who’s looking after your scrum team whilst you’re away?
I’m off on leave for two weeks on Tuesday. I’ve done all the usual preparations, eaten most of my frogs and sent the usual “who’s doing what” email around to various people in the office so that everyone’s clear about my areas of responsibility whilst I’m off.
Probably the biggest responsibility I’ve got is for product development. We’ve [...]
Outsourcing doesn’t work unless you “sit on them” – Rubbish!
By virtue of what can only have been a “few spare chairs”, I found myself at the inaugural IT Leaders Forum a couple of weeks ago at the Imperial War Museum and spent a part of my afternoon chewing the fat in the company of many of the C-level execs from the IT departments of a veritable [...]
Why does Scrum REALLY work?
Type “Scrum” into Google and you’ll get a plethora of articles about Artefacts, Roles and Ceremonies and all that good stuff. You’ll also get plenty of information about “Business Value”, “Adapting to a changing environment”, “Work tracking”, “Process improvement” etc, etc, etc. All that stuff is great. The former makes users of Scrum feel like [...]
Scrum training – getting the balance right.
Earlier in the week I had to deliver a training session to one of our most recent additions to the technical team. He’s been there 3 months and, arguably, I should have provided this training already but I wanted to try something different.
A “good” employer tends to pride themselves on the fact that they deliver [...]
Sprintboard – a Google Wave gadget for distributed scrum teams
A few years ago, I worked in a large software team where all of the tie-wearing developers were in the office for 9am. We had bags of office space and whiteboards EVERYWHERE. One of the things I saw done particularly well in that company was the way in which they used whiteboards to track the [...]
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