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...
Straight out of the Scrum guide: 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...
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...
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...
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,...
Yesterday I had the privilege to run a workshop with nine engaged participants, all from the same company and all in some way working with Scrum. Most of the participants knew each other from before and the gathering was held at a conference centre away from the office. The purpose...
There are three main reasons to why Scrum projects fail. On this I will elaborate in this post. The most obvious reason is of course that the Scrum framework isn't used properly. There are a plethora of articles, books, courses, gatherings, communities, forums, user groups, consultants, and so on, that...
Last December (2015) I got my application for Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) approved by Scrum Alliance. On their website they define this as: Certified Scrum Professionals have demonstrated experience, documented training, and proven knowledge in the art of Scrum. As explained on this page the process of becoming a CSP...
This is a short and simple report of my first Global Scrum Gathering that took place at the Hilton Prague between the 16th and 18th of November 2015. The two cent summary: I would go to the next one if possibility arises, I would even consider being a speaker. The...
Some time ago I sat in on a development team's sprint planning meeting for iteration 17 of a new product at a large organisation. The team was a normal sized team with 5-7 developers, a Scrum Master and a Product Owner. I'd say the developers are experienced but not senior,...
A product backlog is a prioritised list of items yet to be added to the product. An item is something that someone wants to be part of the product. The product backlog is responsibility of the Product Owner. In my opinion the easiest way to administrate the product backlog is...
I've been involved with Scrum since early 2008. It all started with an information day held by HiQ in Stockholm, Sweden. In a series of articles I will elaborate on different subjects of the Scrum framework, on what I've learned so far. List of subjects is at the end of...