Scrum is the most popular agile software development framework. Therefore, knowing it provides an advantage for a career in software development. This article shares information to motivate you to start learning Scrum.
The usage of Scum is not limited to the Agile software development domain, but can also be applied to education. This article discusses how Scrum is revolutionizing education by providing a new approach to learning that is collaborative, outcome-focused, and self-directed.
Transmitting human experience through written material is not easy. As Rachel Davies did in “Agile Coaching“, Lyssa Adkins manages to do it brilliantly in this book that covers the same topic. Based on her own experience of “recovering command-and-control project manager”, she writes about all the circumstances where you can coach people, explaining both what you should and shouldn’t do.
The definitive talk on Work in Progress (WIP) talks about getting things done. From team-level to whole-enterprise scale, the amount of work inside the system directly affects the amount of value being delivered.
Figure 3 deliberately shows an iteration running mid-week to mid-week. My experience, and the experience of others assisting teams, is that running iterations mid-week to mid-week is more effective than running them Monday to Friday.
Scrum.org has announced at the Agile 2023 Conference that together with Comparative Agility they will offer a Scrum Master Improvement self-assessment. This new, free self-assessment tool allows Scrum Masters to evaluate their skills and assess areas for improvement based on the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Competencies.
This presentation offers tips to successfully apply the product owner role. It distinguishes different product owner flavors, explains hope the Scrum product owner role differs from the SAFe one, and how product ownership can be scaled.
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