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A Good Year - Ending

Our little distributed heterogenous team managed to meet at one place - Bremerhaven - to conduct our first yearly retrospective and celebrate together. Although we did not have an external facilitator, we handled the self-inspection quite well by using a couple of well designed and often practices exercises. We reserved a full day - and it was worth it. I would like to share this experience - which exercises we used, how we managed time and facilitation, how we came to positive results and actions.

The Scrum Team - And Why We Should Not Be All The Same

There is a topic that frequently comes up when we're talking to people new at Scrum. If we want to have a Scrum Team that is able to deliver everything about a desired product, do all team members need to have the same skills? Our everyday life tells us that nobody can excel in more than a single area. For instance, Peter Beck is the most creative guy in DasScrumTeam. My sister Julia is extraordinarily diligent. And I am a good analyst. We need all these talents in our business. The different talents come together when we are working as a team. Our products - Scrum trainings and coaching engagements - require this combination to be successful.

Inspect and Adapt Scrum?

Ken Schwaber has left the Scrum Alliance a couple of years ago, to help Scrum succeed in the way he thought it should. He took the Scrum Guide with him, which was supposed to provide the valid definition of Scrum, according to Ken Schwaber. The current online assessment for Certified ScrumMasters comprises several elements of the orginal definition, along with other sources. Ken Schwaber has recently released a new version of the Scrum Guide - with several changes

Das ScrumMaster Manifest

Das Agile Manifest können die meisten von uns schon aus dem Stehgreif herunterbeten. Wir zeigen unsere Wertschätzung für

  • Individuen und Interaktionen über Prozesse und Werkzeuge
  • Lauffähige Software über umfangreiche Dokumentation
  • Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunden über Vertragsverhandlung
  • Auf Veränderungen reagieren über der Einhaltung eines Plans
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