Tag: resource

How to Hybridize Waterfall and Scrum
If you’re like many, you’ve seen plenty of agile-hybrids with funny names like Water-Scrum-Fall, or others. But do these hybrids work? usually not because they fail to reduce risk, deliver value early, or even allow you to change directions quickly. In this video, Robb Pieper of Responsive Advisors will go over how you COULD successfully…

Five ways to spot fake Scrum
Fake scrum is around us everywhere we go. It’s unavoidable. Just look on the internet lookup fake scrum right now and you’re going to find all kinds of interesting articles that describe Scrum in very weird ways. There are at least five ways you can tell if you’ve got fake Scrum going on. No goals:…

This is a Serious Issue: You NEED a Sprint Goal
Why are Sprint Goals so important? imagine you’re a football team and you’re out on the field and you have no idea why you’re there. So, you look around and you just start running and somebody throws a ball and every once in a while you hear some cheering from the fans and you go…

How to Become a Successful Scrum Master in 4 Steps
If you’re reading this, clearly you wanna be a successful Scrum master. Here are four recommendations I can make on what to do to be great at it. First: we need to master Scrum. Take the words “Scrum Master” literally. a Scrum Master knows their stuff, but let’s avoid being a jerk about it. Avoid…

Getting Started with the Definition of Done
What does it take to get started with the Definition of Done? This is a common question coming from new and even experienced Scrum teams. For something to be usable, we must define the quality standard our stakeholders need for a solution to be considered “usable”. If it’s not done, it’s not usable. It all…