How do you overcome analysis paralysis? John Harvey Jones advised: “Ready, Fire, Aim”. In describing the reason he said “I’m more interested in speed than direction. Once you get moving, you can veer and tack. But the important thing is, you’re moving”
This can be aptly applied to scrum implementations. We need a plan and we need to get going. But, how much planning do we need to get a scrum implementation started?
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What do you need for a successful enterprise agile transformation? According to some texts, you need commitment from the CxO suite and buy in from the guys doing the work.
But, I’ve never seen that work. To go one step further, the bigger the enterprise, the more likely a transformation is to fail. The reason? In a word, the ABOMM.
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This is a transcript for a video titled Scrum Overview. You can find the video on YouTube.
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As well as being an agile coach and scrum trainer, I’ve also dabbled in software development. A few weeks ago, I happened across an idea for a software application and I decided to use scrum to help me to create it. The experience reminded me why the location of the product backlog is so important.
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I was working with a team of project managers recently and discussing how scrum works. One of the audience asked me how scrum teams handle third party dependencies. I answered as completely as I could but her response left me temporarily speechless.
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