Scrum Challenge Questions

Time boxing is a the closest thing in agile or scrum that we have to something that is clearly a best practice.
I took your ScrumMaster course last May. What, if anything, do I need to do to keep my SCRUM Master certification active?
Should the notes a ScrumMaster take during the retrospective meeting be publically posted for interested folks to read?
What is the basic building block in applied scrum?
Question on quality forces
We often find ourselves lost in the desirements trying to find the real requirements for our system. Those things which seem required often end up being only desired.
There are a number of things you should do before you can even begin planning. The most important thing you can do is make sure that your Product Owner is prepared,
After a Story is committed to, the Team (with the PO in the lead) has the option to reprioritize the Story list, and the Team takes the next one to consider.

Consulting

We partner with those organizations that wish a deep dive into applied agile product development. We are committed to stimulating innovative results with proper management support. These types of services are called “advanced” because they require a mutual deep commitment on our part and yours. These engagements are enriching because we get to see your team’s change over time and you get us committed to your success. We often find that these types of engagements emerge from a simply training course or seminar.

SEEDED TEAMS

Setting up and configuring healthy functioning teams is hard. Through a combination of our training, coaching and our partnership network we offer individuals who are trained at helping establish "hyperproductive teams".

SELECT PROJECTS

For select projects, 3back staff will engage long term and put our “boots on the ground” with your staff. To engage us in this type of work we will need to have preliminary conversation to see if a match of resources, talent and desire exists on both sides.

AGILE ASSESSMENTS

How ready is your team and organizations for adopting agile? Are you making the best use possible of your teams?

IMPLEMENTING SCRUM FOR DISTRIBUTED TEAMS

Setting up and running a "distributed scrum or agile team" requires more than just a phone and email. What is needed is a framework that has examples, norms, tools and behaviors ready for adoption by the team. We offer a training environment that can be quickly tailored  to a particular client's needs. We will work with your team to establish it’s communication norms, a requirements process, techical skills and an understanding of the how to make a distributed effort work. It is no surprise that distributed teams require "human discipline" to make them work, many of the common pitfalls can be avoided and team learning can be accelerated with the right guidence.

Our experience is that team that pursue this approach achieve productivity levels 10x teams that don't. And they can accelerate to those levels within 3 months with initial training and periodic followup guidence. Organizations that have pursued training with us are left with "hyperproductive teams" that are considered valuable assets which are used for their product development objectives.

Please Contact Us for a unique conversation specific to your product needs so that we can help each other understand how this would work for you.

Last Updated on Monday, 03 August 2009 19:54