Going Nowhere Fast: Scrum without a Product Owner
Customers want it yesterday.
Scrum promises it tomorrow.
So why aren’t we getting it? What is “it” anyway?
Perfect Planning: Best Practices for Successful Sprint Planning
Well-formed, hyper-productive agile teams exhibit certain common traits and have shared best practices. Find out how these teams approach sprint planning.
No Guru? How about a Trigger List?
For new CSMs and for those who feel they are having to make things up as they go along, reliable information is a valuable and all too rare commodity. Can the Scrum Alliance do something to help?
Plan of Action: A Retrospective Technique for Creating Actions Tied to Long-Term Goals
Retrospectives are a time to reflect on what has happened, what your team wants to happen in the future, and what steps you can take to correct course accordingly. Unfortunately, the actions that come out of retrospectives often are either too focused on the present or are so abstract as to be unattainable. Discover one technique for linking actions to goals.
The Daily Meeting Trap
Scrum daily meetings may seem simple on the surface, but believing they are easy is common trap. It's not at all difficult for things to go wrong quickly. Learn how to avoid several common mistakes so that your daily meetings can continue to be an accurate thermometer of your team's progress.
Managing an Agile Project Portfolio
The problem with traditional project portfolios is that struggling projects go on too long. Agile projects open new doors for project managers: doors that can lead to success.
Closing the Gap
One goal of self-empowered teams is to have the team find, own, and fix their problelms by themselves. Applying gap analysis to team practices enables teams to visualize areas of concern and come up with their own action plan to address the shortcomings.