people

Merete Munch Lange believes that all collaboration between people boils down to one word: trust. So how do you infuse trust in an Agile team to achieve a better teamwork? It can’t be bought, it has to be build. There are some universal ways to build trust in a Scrum team and to help improve its performance. In this short presentation, Merete Munch Lange shares some of the things that have worked for her and her teams to build trust for a better teamwork.

The end of the year if often the time for performance reviews. Should you still do this practice when you have Scrum Agile teams where the global results should be more valued than the individual peformance?

Inspired by NASA astronaut training for solving complex, evolving problems on the fly, the Chaos Lottery is one approach to testing the resilience of a Scrum team. This is a story about knowing what you should do, and finding you are still not quite doing it.

Agile and Scrum team formation is a natural human response to certain conditions. Once they exist, the formation process begins. This session looks at those conditions, and then looks at what other conditions need to be reached to progress through the different stages defined by Bruce Tuckman: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.

In small Scrum teams, it’s common for people to share roles such as Scrum Master / Tester / Dev but in a lot of cases there are conflicting interests. How can a Tester adequately test when as a Scrum Master the highest priority is assisting the team to deliver?