scrum

The last couple of years I’ve seen an increase in job offerings for Scrum masters here in Sweden. The title of these adverts more often than not include the text “Scrum master”. This shows that the market is adapting more and more to the need for agile methodologies, and Scrum in particular. And this is of course great news, but… Lately I’ve started to read these adverts more thoroughly and have found that none of them are for a position as a fulltime Scrum master....

Straight out of the Scrum guide1: The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint. and By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint. Implementing these improvements in the next Sprint is the adaptation to the inspection of the Scrum Team itself....

In July of 2016 the Scrum guide was updated, thus adding the Scrum values mentioned in the great “Agile Development with Scrum”. The text reads as follows, with me highlighting the five values: When the values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team, the Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life and build trust for everyone. The Scrum Team members learn and explore those values as they work with the Scrum events, roles and artifacts....

Should Scrum Alliance contact me for a spot on their page “CSPs Changing the World” the following could be the text they might publish. Meet Jonas Bolldén CSP® Jonas Bolldén lives in Linköping, Sweden, and is a consultant for Sogeti Sverige AB. For you, what is the main difference between where you began as a CSM®, CSPO®, or CSD® and becoming a CSP? That would be confidence; added confidence is the main difference....

I rarely use projectors or computers while facilitating meetings. There are occasions where those kind of tools are perfect, but my main reason for not using them is my style of facilitation; I’m much more comfortable with a whiteboard (or a flip chart) and a set of coloured markers. However, there is one specific exception to this, and that’s when the meeting is related to the subject of Scrum. On these occasions I keep one image ready to be presented....