Take Courage
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Take Courage

Courage is the willingness to confront fear; one Scrum value says “The Scrum Team members have the courage to do the right thing, to work on tough problems”. It may not be “running into a burning building” courage, it can still be quite daunting to speak up when you feel yours is the lone voice…

Adapting Scrum
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Adapting Scrum

That’s not a typo in the title – I see lots of articles about adopting scrum (i.e. getting started) but I wanted to touch on adapting scrum, for those who have been doing scrum “by the book” and are wondering what’s next. The most common start point for groups as they step into the agile…

Quality built-in
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Quality built-in

When you notice that the quality of your product isn’t a high as you’d like, what can you do? It’s useful to start by understanding what quality means for your product: how is it defined, how is it measured, and what level is desirable. For example, if your indicator is the number of “escaped defects”…

Context is king
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Context is king

I know the common phrase is “content is king”, but as far as Agile is concerned it’s context that is key. When a team starts a new initiative, it’s important that they understand who it is for, why it is important, what value is it expected to provide, what problem(s) will it solve, etc. Without…

Scaling Up
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Scaling Up

If some is good, then surely more is better? Companies want to expand, and frequently the assumption is that just adding more people will result in successfully growing the organisation. Then, when they realise that’s not working, they decide that what’s needed is more process. Fortunately, there are frameworks which you can install to fix…