The making of “Hero,” a portrait composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots. Hero from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.
Performance evaluations and Scrum.
ne of the most frequently ask questions that I’m asked is, how do you do personal performance reviews and appraisals in a Scrum environment. Part of the difficulty is that the Scrum framework talks about three equally balanced roles; the Product Owner, the ScrumMaster and the Team. If the roles are equally balanced then who [...]
Guest Post: Using the power of “AND”
I was discussing the standup ritual the other day with some peers in some ScrumMaster training. We were discussing smells and anti-patterns in agile – and the discussion strayed to the team members that quickly belt out: “Working-on-AD-49238-yesterday-(Finished)-today-I’ll-work-on-AD-42938-no-blockers-NEXT” What value does this add to anyone? Did this … Doing that … No blockers. No respect, [...]
T-Shirt sized estimating cards
I‘ve been a big fan of abstract estimating cards for a long time, and I’ve especially enjoyed using T-shirt sizes. T-shirt sizes are great because the enable communication with Product Owners; they immediately understand that a Large body of work is going be to bigger than a Medium body of work yet smaller than an [...]
Chaos, Crisis and Scrum
There is much written about Scrum and chaos, and how Scrum dances on the edge of chaos. This is quite well know and acknowledged in the community [1]. Crisis however is the point at which one system ends and another begins. It’s an inflection point. It is dramatic, disruptive and often very painful. There is [...]
