Blog: Agile & Business
Scrum vs Waterfall : How do they Compare?
Scrum vs Waterfall I have recently been asked for advice on how to compare Waterfall (WF) and Scrum VS Waterfall. This is a hard question in some ways: the best way to compare will depend on the person you are talking to. Another problem is that few people do ‘pure’ waterfall in actual practice. And […]
Agile Transformation – 1
I was leading an Intermediate CSPO course last week in Winston-Salem. There were some good questions. One theme was about the agile transformation. The idea is simple, and has many names. One way to say it: Only by transforming the culture and many of the current ‘ways of doing things’ can a firm realize the […]
2011 State of Agile Survey
Below is the 2011 Survey by Version One. The state of agile. One might like yet better participants in the survey, but still I think it is generally indicative of the main trends, because many participated. http://agileconsortium.pbworks.com/w/page/51511217/2011%20State%20of%20Agile%20Survey Some key points to me: * We have a long way to go * Too many people “rolling […]
Who should fix Impediments?
In the Certified ScrumMasters LinkedIn group, Michael asked: Who should fix impediments, the SM or the Team? His answer was: Both. And then he discussed. This topic has drawn a fair number of comments. Here is one of mine. *** 1. Michael is right. Who should fix the impediments and how much the Team should […]
More on: The Product Owner and the Team
There has been some interesting discussion on this topic recently. Two things I wanted to add to my prior post. 1. The business side cannot force the Doers to “do all that I say” in the Sprint. This is of course a well-known rule of Scrum. But this rule does not eject the PO from […]
We must have working software at the end of the Sprint!
This is a common failing (we don’t have working product or working software at the end of the sprint). Jeff Sutherland has said this is the biggest problem in the Scrum community — too many teams don’t have working software at the end of every Sprint. If we include cases where 1 or more PBIs […]
Business Value Engineering framework
I am about to do another BV Engineering workshop. In Orlando, Feb 23-24. Preceded (appropriately) by an Intermediate CSPO (Product Owner) course. Feb 21-22. In this post I wanted to explain the workshop from a different angle that I have done before. First, what is the BVE framework? Scrum is a framework. Not a full […]
Why an Intermediate CSPO (Product Owner) course?
I am about to do an Intermediate Certified Scrum Product Owner course in Orlando. Feb 21-22. Followed by a Business Value Engineering workshop. Feb 23-24. In this post I want to talk about why the Intermediate CSPO is important and how it is different. First, our finding is that the Team is important. Any focus […]
An Intro to BV Engineering: the paper
I have written version 2.2 of a paper that introduces the concepts around Business Value Engineering. See: http://agileconsortium.pbworks.com/w/page/28278924/Intro%20to%20Business%20Value%20Engineering I would appreciate your feedback, either here or in an email. Thanks!
Committing for the Sprint
This is, to me, still a New Year. A friend suggested I discuss New Years’ resolutions. Or something like them, Sprint commitments. Henry Ford said: Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are usually right. So, let us work backwards. To me, in most business situations, the main thing is satisfying the customer. […]
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