Posts Tagged ‘well formed team’
Is Anonymous Feedback Useful?
How does feedback happen on your Team? A Scrum Team member recently told me that she receives feedback anonymously from her Teammates and the business as a whole, so she’s never told who made what comment in their feedback process—that’s normal in their organization. As someone who has facilitated numerous feedback processes, this surprised me…
Read MoreZombie Standups (And How to Bring them Back to Life)
Are you Trapped in a Zombie Standup? Do you find yourself tuning out during Standup (Daily Scrum)? Do you feel like everybody’s monotonously reciting laundry list answers to the Three Questions: what you worked on yesterday, what you’re working on today, and…maybe…what impediments you’ve run into? When it’s your turn, do you find yourself facing…
Read MoreLeader-less Scrum?
Is your Scrum vocabulary missing the word “leader”? Is the idea of recognized leaders something you think belongs to the waterfall world, not agile? Some people were trained that in Scrum the only acceptable uses of leader refer the Scrum Master’s servant leadership or Dev team members’ situational leadership. Do you have a vague sense…
Read MoreA Day In The Life Of A ScrumMaster
The daily life of a ScrumMaster is anything but mundane. Play along with one ScrumMaster as she facilitates, plans, and runs interference all in the name of becoming a Well-Formed Team™.
Read More2 Very Compelling Reasons To Never Ever Have The Boss Be The ScrumMaster
Boss’s Day is October 16th. Regardless of how you commemorate this Hallmark card-inspired holiday, it goes without saying that the Boss plays a significant role in your Agile work environment. It also goes without saying that being a successful ScrumMaster[1] is hard. The ScrumMaster’s ability to be the eyes and ears of the Team requires a particular skill set.
Read More4 Valid Reasons (And 1 Big Invalid Reason) the Product Owner Might Cancel a Sprint
The Product Owner may quit or cancel a Sprint at any time. This is no big deal, and there are lots of valid reasons the Product Owner may want to do it. There is also one BIG invalid reason to do so.
Read MoreHow To Solve Toxic Team Norms
How is it that Teams sometimes encourage people to be less accountable, in the guise of caring for them? As Dan Rawsthorne and Doug Shimp described in The Well-Formed Team™, Team Members do whatever chores are needed to support the work they are supposed to be doing, and are given slack but don’t get to slack off.
Read MoreThe 1 Thing About The Scrum Guide Conference Your Team Wants To Know.
Our first Scrum 3.0 Conference in Chicago last week was the stuff Scrum Practitioners and Agilistas get excited about. It was a full day of experiential learning geared for the complex challenges of an Agile workforce. And the energy and feedback around Scrum 3.0, the most Agile version of Scrum that exists, was clear throughout the day’s events.
Read MoreThe Easiest Way To Strengthen Your Scrum Fundamentals [ebook]
Whether you’re new to the world of Scrum or have years of Sprints under your belt, wrapping your head around Scrum’s fundamental framework is an undertaking. That’s why we wrote our most popular ebook, Scrum 101…
Read MoreAgile Consulting: A Tale of Two Risks
My work as an Agile Consultant comes in many shapes and sizes. In this consultant role, I work on the skills and standards needed for my clients to be proficient in their line of work. On this particular occasion, I was working with a client (we’ll call this client Acme Marketing and Technology) who delivers technology and marketing services in a Scrum/Agile-like manner…
Read MoreHeroes don’t win games; Well-Formed Teams™ do.
Many people have asked me, “What is a Well-Formed Team, Marcelo?”. Well, there are many examples out there. But now, there should be at least 117 million viewers who’ve supposedly observed one, live and in-action.
Read MoreWhat Football Teaches Us About Scrum Teams
Even if you think that a “Fair Catch”[1] has something to do with a summer carnival fishing tournament and a “Flea Flicker”[2] can be eradicated with a dog collar, there are two things that all football and non-football fans know. The crazy intensity of the championship football season is among us. And, the only football…
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