I started using “Solo Scrum” again. This means that I am playing the three roles all by myself.
What are the three roles?
1) Product Owner
2) Team Member
3) ScrumMaster.
After only one day (Thursday) of using this again, some big things jumped out at me as lessons learned.
Take a look at the video and please provide comments to what you see so far.
Is this kind of thing useful to you? Do you see similar mistakes?
I’ll see if I can make some improvements on Friday and share them with you.
Have an awesome weekend (or welcome to Monday!).
Thank you!
- mike vizdos
www.implementingscrum.com
www.michaelvizdos.com
Thanks for reading this latest blog entry at www.implementingscrum.com.
Today I want to introduce you to the latest translated cartoon on the site in Tagalog.
Quick… What country is this the official language for? C’mon… no peeking at Google (smile).
I’ll let you know (since I really did not know either!)… it is the official language of the Philippines.
This brings the total count of translated versions for the Pig and Chicken Story to over a dozen now!
Thanks to all who have contributed so far, including Randy Dichoso for this one!
Interested in translating this into your language?
Contact me and I’ll let you know how to do it.
This continues to show the truly International flavor of Scrum and where it is being adopted everywhere in the world.
I hope you are having a great day (or morning or night!)…
I’ve got three more brand new cartoons in the pipeline over the next three weeks… on brand new topics and exploring even further into this world of Implementing Scrum we are all so involved in.
Hi all,
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This week has been instrumental in helping me get some great clarity of where I am taking the site in the future. Some people I know missed my original posting earlier this week — so if you did not read them go back a few posting to see what has lead to this posting tonight!
I am headed out this weekend (a camping trip with my two boys) and will return on Monday afternoon.
And.
I have no travel plans for next week.
So here is the Product Backlog for the site (prioritized, not estimated yet) — we’ll see what makes it to the Sprint Backlog for next week.
1) Cartoons – Publish one translated (of the original chicken and pig) along with a new one (this is actually on Sprints!). We have three more comic strips in the pipeline for release on the blog in the future.
2) Job Board – The infrastructure is setup. Now we need about 3-5 people to help bring it to fruition. I need to schedule a call or start an email thread with those who are interested in helping me on this project. If you are, please contact me and you’ll hear from me early next week.
3) Training Material – The infrastructure is setup. I need to publish the rollout plan for making this happen and start implementing it next week by people signing up for a new list. The goal will be to get people enough information on an on-going basis that they can then take it back to their locations and deliver it with ease. Options will include FREE, a subscription to talk to the trainers who are developing this (and recorded web-casts), and of course on-site paid consultation with me and other trainers to help you jump-start the tailoring process and we will work with you hand-in-hand to develop and even co-teach the class with you. The free information will be just as good as the other available options… I promise that! I’ll need you to keep me honest on that!
4) Remember that “Scrum on a Page” that I asked for comments on a few months ago. Wow. I had so much information to synthesize that I am now ready to meet with Tony and have him do a “Implementing Scrum” overhaul on it to match the site. This will become the cornerstone of the site and will be used in multiple ways. I am super-excited about this! And. It will not be perfect; however, just like the theme of our site, we need to have something to start those tough conversations. I think this will hit that mark!
5) Build a small affiliate program. As many of you know, I travel a LOT around the world. One of the ways this is possible is by making sure I can sell seats into the workshops (or create billable consulting hours). If you are interested in becoming an affiliate for selling seats into my classes — or even consulting engagements — this is the time for you to contact me and let me know your interest. The model rocks, and will be rolled out soon too.
6) I am in need of a developer to help me take an XML file and run it through some sort of converter so that I do not have to manually create the page www.michaelvizdos.com/enroll. I have access to the XML file and I’d like the output to look similar to what is out there today. This is something that just irks me because the data is available and without automation we have dual work to do (bad thing!).
7) I need to port the site www.michaelvizdos.com to a wordpress site. The infrastructure is setup. Just time is needed to actually do it. Fun stuff. But… I need to keep driving revenue from that site and keeping the implementingscrum.com site as free from advertisers as possible (I hope you enjoy that it REALLY does not have any advertising except for some things about me.
I need a few people who can commit to checking the forum a few days per week and making sure that spam does not get interjected. I have been really bad at checking this on a regular basis and know the forum is an important place for REAL people using Scrum to exchange information. Interested? Please let me know. I’d appreciate it.
So, this is the PRODUCT backlog of what I have going on just for the site. This is in addition to all the traveling I am currently doing and plan on doing in the future.
Have a great weekend!
If you have any input on the priority of things listed above, please comment about it here and I will listen to all my stakeholders (you) [smile].
Thank you, again, for everything you do.
- mike vizdos
This is an explosive new post where I (Michael Vizdos) in conjunction with some other Certified Scrum Trainers – will RELEASE ALL our material into public domain (under creative commons) so that anyone can use what we have developed over the years.
Is this selfish of us doing this?
We will promise that you will not be able to “certify” new Scrum Masters (from the point of view of the Scrum Alliance, a non-profit organization).
Does this matter?
If you *would* like “Certified” trainers to come in and help with your training roll-outs — we are available to do that. In the end, we have realized that there is more of a need to get people exposed to the Certified Scrum Training materials that a few of us have been selling (the training services of) for many years.
Here is the plan.
Try to use this information in your organization.
If you need help, contact one of us who have basically open-sourced our full two-day CSM class.
Fair?
Inspect and Adapt.
Let’s see where it leads.
Ready?
Contact us for more information on how to get this information. Now!
Also.
Contact us with your success stories!
Thanks for believing in this.
Let’s see where it goes!
- Mike Vizdos (mvizdos@gmail.com)
Hi,
I know I have been “out of pocket” for a while — mostly cleaning up some personal life stuff with my father passing away last month (thank you all for the kind words and thoughts!).
Here is what you will see THIS WEEK.
1) Some explosive new information tomorrow night. Wow. This is huge. You will want to get signed up for this information AS SOON as it is released.
2) We are going to release a translated version of the Chicken and Pig original cartoon. This is a good one 
.
3) I am going to ask for about 5 or 6 people to help me kick off the “Scrum Job Connection” later this week via a conference call — and let’s see where we can take this. I am at the point where I will need some volunteers and I am asking YOU for a bit of help.
4) Want to make some money in this trying economy? Let me know if you’d like to become an affiliate for me — sales for consulting or training. Lots of options, and YOU know the local markets and KNOW what I can do to help them. Let’s see if there is a way we can work together and PROFIT together moving forward. I’ll be looking for a small handful of TRUSTED people to help me get his kicked off.
Thanks to all the new readers to the blog. If you have just joined us… Welcome.
If you have been around for a while… THANK YOU… and PLEASE keep spreading the word!
5) Finally, Tony and I have a handful of cartoons in the pipeline to get out on a regular basis again. I know… I know… it’s the MAIN reason you keep coming back to this site, and I totally get that and appreciate it.
Thank you!
Take some action on this email.
And.
Chat more later this week!
Thank you.
- mike vizdos
www.michaelvizdos.com
www.implementingscrum.com
