“'Agile' is one of the biggest buzzwords of the last decade. Agile methods often come across as rather more complicated than they really are. This book is an attempt to unravel that complexity. To simplify the concepts. This book breaks the concepts into small bite-sized pieces that are easy to understand and easy to implement and delivers the message in a friendly and conversational style. Allaboutagile.com is one of the most popular blogs about agile on the web. ”
Kelly Waters
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“"Whilst there are lots of ways you can vary the game depending on the teams you have and the learning outcomes you want, the basic flow of the game play is common to all."
Why did we make the game?
https://www.101ways.com/2018/08/16/agile-101-the-game-and-how-it-happened/
How to play the game?
https://www.101ways.com/2018/08/20/agile-101-how-to-play-the-game/”
Emma Hopkinson-Spark
Yes, I want this!I’m on one of our client sites to meet Sonny Lam: Data Explorer, Scrum Master and lounge wear extraordinaire. While I like my interviewees to feel relaxed, I’ll admit this is the first time I’ve ever questioned someone wearing slippers, and Pokémon ones at that. But whatever gets the job done, right? I had promised […]
Tell me more >The only people that need to learn Scrum are Scrum Masters, right? We’d argue wrong. Last week we sent our Talent specialists, Grace Carey and Kate Greentree to learn the principles in 48 hours. Will they ever get a chance to put what they’ve learned into practice? Unlikely. Does it matter? Unlikely. Here Grace […]
Tell me more >I recently saw this post from Matt Swanson about the effectiveness of the standard Scrum formula for daily stand-ups: http://mdswanson.com/blog/2013/05/29/the-30-second-standup.html Thanks for posting it Matt. It’s absolutely right to challenge this and the principle of adapting processes so they are more effective for your team is definitely the spirit of agile. In terms of my […]
Tell me more >One of the things I really like about Scrum is how beautifully simple it is. Actually, the challenge in implementing any agile method is in how it makes you think about how to do things differently, both in terms of doing things incrementally in very short iterations, and also in terms of doing things collaboratively […]
Tell me more >Scrum is the most popular agile method… if you count all of the teams doing “Scrum Butt”. Doing Scrum really well is much harder and much rarer. Here is a list of 24 common pitfalls or bad behaviours of Scrum teams: Excessive Preparation/Planning: Regular big up-front planning is not necessary with Scrum. Instead, a team [...]
Tell me more >I have worked with a lot of people, teams and organizations over the last 8 years helping them to adopt Scrum and I have seen some interesting patterns about where Scrum works well and where it doesn’t work so well. I wanted to share my observations to see if they correlate with what other people [...]
Tell me more >Hi all. Apologies in advance for this slight deviation from my normal topic, but I have done a deal with New Relic so that any All About Agile readers that sign up and deploy their free web site monitoring software will get a free Scrumasaurus t-shirt! Sorry if you need monitoring software and want a […]
Tell me more >The real question sent to me was: What are some tips for integrating our SCRUM model with non-Scrum groups who will not be adopting the process? One can go many places with this question, and there could be other questions within this questions. F...
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