Hi,
Lyssa Adkins and I are co-facilitating a Certified ScrumMaster class in Richmond this coming Monday and Tuesday (January 26-27, 2009).
If you are interested in seeing us in action, and learning a LOT (us included!) please visit www.michaelvizdos.com/enroll to sign up.
Thank you.
- mike vizdos
Hi all,
Today is our first try at a new format (in addition to the cartoons) at www.implementingscrum.com.
It is called, “ImplementingScrum – UnScripted” and will feature audio and/or video in different formats along the way. By the time this goes out, it should be out on youtube and here is a link to the “.mov” format (uses quicktime and is just under 17MB — for some reason this is MUCH clearer — any recommendations???).
Using FeedBurner, it should also find it’s way out to iTunes as a podcast… let’s see together how it all works and continue to inspect and adapt.
Fair? (smile)
This first version of this is with a guy “Down Under” who had some spectacular patience with me this morning (in addition to the fifteen hour time difference!).
His name is James Brett and he maintains a site at www.scrummaster.com.au and recently (with a LOT of help with the people there!) published a survey, where you can see the results at www.scrummaster.com.au/Article.mvc/Detail/43 or download the PDF file from www.scrummaster.com.au/Content/download/ScrumSurveyResultsJan09.pdf.
The video of this is about eight minutes long and goes into the survey a bit and introduces the topic. It is not meant to be exhaustive — right now it is a test of the technology convergence(s) and as usual we want to keep these things short and to the point.
A few other references made in the video included a retrospective formats article and retrospective why.
You can also check out a few cartoons about retropectives on this site (there is a three part series here:
www.implementingscrum.com/2007/09/04/scary-team-retrospectives-part-one/
www.implementingscrum.com/2007/09/10/retrospectives-not-just-reading-a-book-part-two/
www.implementingscrum.com/2007/09/17/walk-into-the-light-retrospectives-part-3-of-3/
As usual, any errors anywhere on the video or my site — I accept that responsibility.
Take a look at the video and the links above for the survey and other stuff and PLEASE comment about it below.
Inspect and Adapt.
Let’s see where we go.
As usual!
Thank you.
www.implementingscrum.com
www.michaelvizdos.com
Hi,
I will publicly apologize tonight but I am so sorry for the email
amounts you received this morning.
Here is what happened:
Google decided the transfer my “feed” (how you get the information)
from FeedBurner, a company they bought last year.
During this transition, about 50 emails went out and I am
working with the team at Google to see why. It may have been an
interaction between FeedBurner/Google and aWeber — two service
providers I use to help keep us connected.
I am sorry for the glut of email this morning and hope
that you stay as an RSS subscriber or come back via email.
I accept responsibility for the mistake, but that is what happened.
- mike vizdos
Welcome back to a new week and first cartoon of 2009 at www.implementingscrum.com.
Thank you for continuing to follow and spread the word about this blog and our cartoons.
Get ready for a blast this coming year.
The last cartoon of 2008 covered the topic of how to handle questions from outside stakeholders during a Scrum (or iteration).
Remember that even familiar chickens can be dangerous to derailing an iteration.
Eek.
Does that sound too dogmatic?
Hmmm.
Let’s think.
Who calls an iteration “Done?”
That would be the Product Owner (look back at this old comic strip from the early days for a refresher on that).
And, the “old way” of doing this — in a waterfall environment — was to bow to the pressure. That leads to very funny cult-movies; however, in reality it sucks for everyone involved.
Especially if you bow to it while using Scrum.
So.
If you are a Team Member on a Scrum team and you get asked to do something that is outside the Sprint Backlog, you’ve GOTTA turn it over to the Product Owner to deal with.
So, this comic strip shows that.
Our intrepid character Pig did the right thing.
And.
What is the Product Owner now supposed to do with this information?
This is not a blame game.
But.
Someone needs to be responsible for the decisions.
How does this sit with you?
And where does the ScrumMaster play in this situation?
Comments, as usual, are requested and will help guide where we take this in the future (smile).
Thank you,
- mike vizdos
www.michaelvizdos.com
www.implementingscrum.com
Hi all.
Welcome back to the “work” of 2009. My son and I finished almost 6k miles on a 13 day road trip that took us across America and into some wild places. It was awesome. And now…
Back to focusing on some of the work of Scrum.
There is a lot for us to do this year.
I am hoping that learning through comic strips and other methods will help all of us.
Happy learning. I look forward to learning lots from all of you this year, and questioning whatever we all accept as “acceptable” and pushing the limits.
Ready?
Thank you.
- mike vizdos
www.implementingscrum.com
www.michaelvizdos.com
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