Last night I posted the first “new” comic strip since falling into a “work mode” that sucked a lot of my time and energy from keeping to my regular schedule. With some trepidation I released a new comic strip yesterday and I need to say a sincere “Thank you” for the great comments so far!
If you missed the latest comic strip and blog entry, check out the posting, “Chicken Soup. Scrum Style.”
More importantly, read the comments that are addressing the questions I posed in the blog entry.
They do rock.
Please keep adding to them.
Also.
Let me know (either via email or a comment below this posting) how you like this format — and if it is engaging enough for you.
I value your feedback and active engagement in this community.
Wow.
It continues to grow.
And.
Pass this site and the info and the comic on to your teams and managers and executives in your organizations.
Start the tough conversations.
Let me know if I can help you.
Let’s see if we can continue challenging the status quo of work today.
Help me.
And this WILL continue helping others.
Thank you!
- mike vizdos
This week Tony and I are finally reintroducing the weekly cartoon blogs after a bit of a hiatus. Sorry for the long wait; however, you should start seeing these on a weekly basis once again! I am going to try to take a different tact going forward — let’s see how it goes. I am going to present YOU with a scenario. And I want YOU to add comments as to how you would handle the scenario using Scrum. I will add comments to your comments to get a conversation going. Make sense?
If you have any ideas please contact me and we can talk about exploring them via a comic strip or even you writing a guest blog entry!
Here is the scenario:
You are running a Scrum Team in an organization that contains a large contingent of Waterfall Projects and surviving somehow in a command-and-control environment.
Maybe you even have multiple teams running at this point.
You are following the “Combo Approach” of rolling this out, and you have support of the team and a person at the highest level within the organization, so that when impediments are hit they can be cleared if you ask.
All of the sudden, there is a reorganization.
The Chickens have moved around.
Your Scrum Team inherits some very new Chickens with little experience using Scrum and are pretty tight when it comes to command-and-control management styles.
One of the new Chickens walks into the Scrum Team room and asks for status reports to start up again. In writing using the template this Chicken has always used to get control of projects.
Starting today.
You look at this Chicken in amazement.
You ask, “Why?”
This project seems to be out of control in the view of this Chicken.
“We also need to start having daily one hour status meetings from everyone in this group… Fifteen minutes is not enough. I (The Chicken) will run the meeting and set the agenda. It may have to be two times a day.”
The Chicken wants a “all hands” meeting at the end of the day today for a few hours.
The Chicken is thinking about instituting mandatory sixty hour work weeks.
The words “Microsoft Project” are thrown around.
The Chicken also wants to put the teams back into offices because their stature in the company is high — the team members have all been with the company for a long time and want their own offices back (according to the Chicken).
The Chicken wants to have an all day post moderm to determine the root cause of the problems with this team because the boss of the Chicken wants the Chicken to be in charge.
So,
What do YOU do?
- As a Team Member?
- As a ScrumMaster?
- As a Product Owner?
- As “The Chicken”?
Comment on your responses.
Let’s get the conversation going!
Hi all.
I know. I know. It’s hard to believe.
After a long hiatus, Tony and I are back and committed to weekly releases of comic strips once again. Since literally blowing past our two-year birthday, we love to see our “original” members from the beginning hanging in there and all the “new” people joining every day.
You’ll see it around this time tomorrow.
Please do us a facor and pass this on to your teams, family, and friends who may be interested in this type of information. If people sign up via email, they (you???) will get free stuff (always a good thing) from me.
As the travel season winds down from totally insane to just a little nutsy for the remainder of the year, I will be able to spend more time with you — my lifeblood of the community and friends that I have met or have yet to meet one day.
Thanks again, and have an incredible week. I am off to Kansas City for a few days.
- mike vizdos
www.michaelvizdos.com
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Hi all,
Wow. First, let me continue to apologize for NOT getting the comic strip out to out on a normal basis.
Life. Taking over a bit right now.
They will continue.
And.
I am learning a ton right now working with new clients. Much of that will become future fodder for the site and show up in cartoons to help us all learn more.
If you have specific ideas about cartoons or want to become a guest blogger, please contact me!
Thank you.
- mike
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