Are We Headed to Abilene? How the Abilene Paradox Hinders Team Collaboration
Scrum teams are tasked with finding the most optimal way to accomplish the work. To do this, they make decisions ranging from how best to meet goals to who should work on which tasks. Reaching group consensus can be difficult. Some opinions are more dominant than others; some voices more hesitant to speak out. Even in agreement, true consensus might not exist. Find out how to reach an agreement that everyone on the team can believe in.
Go with the Workflow: Focus on process instead of definitions to help new teams deal with product backlog items
How one CSP discovered that when explaining product backlog items to new teams, it's best to avoid delving into details about the PBI itself and instead focus on the the workflow of a PBI and the interaction with the Scrum framework.
Agile Alliance: Living our Values & Principles in Crisis: Reprinted with permission
The Agile 2010 conference, long planned for Nashville, TN, suddenly had to be relocated due to severe flooding. Read the story of how this Scrum Alliance-sponsored conference used agile values and principles to respond quickly to change.
Managing Myopia with Release Burndowns: A CSP’s perspective on Scrum metrics.
Sprint burndowns are an essential Scrum artifact. Teams use them throughout the sprint to track work remaining. But one CSP has found that, for his projects, a release burndown has become just as essential, especially when it comes to communicating with upper management.
Effective Retrospectives & Reviews: A CSP’s perspective on continuously improving both the process and the product.
Are your team’s retrospectives really worth the effort? Do the problems you identify actually get solved? If not, your team might need some help learning how to use retrospectives to continuously improve. This article illustrates how Scrum teams can continuously improve by using a combination of their definition of done, working agreements, and the product backlog.
Agile Coaching Qualities, from A to Z: CSP-Submitted Blog Post
Successful ScrumMasters and agile coaches share many positive qualities—listed here from A&A to Z&Z.
Attitude & Affirmations
Dress up your attitude and you can achieve 100 percent success. Affirmation is a self talk – w...
New to User Stories? Written for the Scrum Alliance. A CSP’s perspective on user stories, requirements, and use cases
Everyone knows that to do Scrum well, you must change the way you approach requirements. But when you're just getting started it's hard to know the difference between traditional requirements, use cases, and user stories. And even harder to know which one works for you. Charles Suscheck, with co-author William Nazzarro, shares his knowledge and experience to help you choose the methodology that works best for you.