Blog: Agile & Business

Agile-Carolinas Mtg: Waterfall vs Agile – key discussion points

July 10, 2021

Agile started as a reaction to Waterfall (cf. definition of waterfall in Dr. Royce’s paper). Perhaps not so much a reaction to Royce’s Waterfall, but to how Waterfall was being played in the wild. The reaction was expressed many ways, but a simple short explanation is in the Agile Manifesto (4 lines) and the Agile […]

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Agile Carolinas meeting: Helping Agile Managers – an open space-like event. July 1

June 22, 2021

Next Aile Carolinas  meeting.  In an Open Space-like format.  2 hours. Topic / Theme: Helping Agile Managers / Leaders Date: July 1, Thursday, at 5:00 pm EDT, for 2 hours. Format: Online (Zoom) This will be done in an Open Space way. We will have simultaneous sessions (break outs) on Zoom. Here are some questions […]

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Webinar: Discussing 7 Scrum Patterns

June 22, 2021

This is another in our Webinar Series.  1 hour. Topic: Discussing 7 Scrum Patterns Date: August 10th, Tuesday, at 1:30 pm EDT, for 1 hour. Format: Online. As you know, the idea of patterns has been around for a long time.  And became more popular after architect Christopher Alexander wrote the book: A Pattern Language. […]

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Webinar: Alternatives to Scaling 3 Teams

June 22, 2021

This is another in our Webinar Series.  1 hour. Topic: Alternatives to Scaling 3 Teams Date: July 20th, at 4 pm EDT, for 1 hour. Format: Online. There are many definitions of “scaling”. For now, we are defining scaling as putting 3 Teams together to work closely on a big, high coupling – high cohesion […]

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Webinar: Scrum Patterns

May 21, 2021

This is another in our Webinar Series.  1 hour. Topic: Scrum Patterns (Improve Now) Date: June 17th, at 2pm EDT, for 1 hour. Online. We will introduce the idea of Scrum Patterns, and discuss some background. And then mainly discuss 10 key patterns that can make your Team better now. These are from the patterns […]

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James Coplien / Scrum Patterns

April 30, 2021

On April 28, 2021, we had an Agile Carolinas meeting. Very large group (up to 90 I think), from many parts of the world. Certainly Europe and the US were well-represented. And James Coplien gave a wonderful talk on Scrum Patterns and related topic.  To be brief, Coplien is the co-author of A Scrum Book, […]

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Webinar: 2 Patterns for Managers

April 16, 2021

This is another in our Webinar Series.  1 hour. One: Impediment Removal Team The basics of the idea are simple. You form a Scrum Team with Managers.  The job of the team is to fix impediments for a group of Teams (say, 5 to 20 teams).  In the Product Backlog of the IRT is a […]

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Webinar: Managers and Team self-managing

March 1, 2021

This is another in our $5 Webinar Series.  1 hour. The new Scrum Guide says that Teams should be self-managing. And Jeff Sutherland says managers are essential in Scrum. Broadly we know that there are some “poorly trained” managers, at least from an agile viewpoint.  And others find there are good managers out there (at […]

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Scrum Guides 2020 – 2009

February 19, 2021

Here are some Scrum Guides: 2020-Scrum-Guide-US Scrum-Guide-US-2017 Scrum-Guide-US-2016 Scrum Guide July 2013 Scrum Guide Oct 2011 Scrum_Guide_v1_Scrum_Alliance_Feb2010 Scrum Guide Nov 2009 This appears to be the only Scrum Guide issued only by Scrum.org Scrum_Guide-20090706 This is the original Scrum Guide, that Ken Schwaber wrote and issued before he left Scrum Alliance. There is a proto-Scrum […]

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Webinar: Renewing Your Certification

February 4, 2021

I just did a half-hour webinar on this topic. Lots of good questions. Two main methods: Gather X (often 20) SEUs (Scrum Educational Units) (eg, to renew your CSM) Take or re-take a Scrum Alliance certification course (eg, re-take the CSM course) I will give this webinar again in a few weeks.  You are welcome […]

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