It has been two years since I became a certified scrum master. From humble white boards to fully online jira; Iteration plannings to Retrospectives; It has been a wild ride. Something that I can truly say was enjoyable as it was challenging. Time to Celebrate! Then I see a letter from Scrum Alliance saying i need to pay 100$ to ...
Retrospectives are there to help the team keep improving by looking at whats is good, what is bad and what can be improved with how we work. But if no body speaks out finding facts can be next to impossible. Also we tend to remember the bad more often. Add a multi-site team to this mix and what you get ...
Scrum Master vs Process Master. Sounds like something from Mortal Kombat or some cheesy movie. Today a friend of mine asked me why I have put 'Process Master' in my bio here at blogger. It should be Scrum Master right? Tell that to the 'process' guys who came up with this. Truthfully , i didn't like it either. The official ...
We had our weekly demo today. In the morning i wanted to make our Jira WFB to show the task group by user stories and it in turn grouped by epics, so we could easily show an overview of progress during the demo. 30 minutes later I realized it could NOT be done! Well not with the current JIRA version ...
Today morning after the stand-up our PM asked us how do feel about the "overall progress" of the project. Since we were right at the halfway point of a three month project it was a real good question. Each of team member knew how the User Stories were progressing yet I got the feeling we were not seeing the whole ...
Inspect and Adapt ..they are the two most important things to remember when practicing scrum. Days, weeks, months or even years later i might come back to this post and wonder what could i have written as my first post. For today this seems good enough!
