I continued my trend from last week of reading a book by Patrick Lencioni and a book about Scrum Product Ownership. The Truth About Employee Engagement by Patrick Lencioni In The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery, Patrick Lencioni tells a story about a recently retired CEO who is […]
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What I’ve Been Reading – The Advantage and Scrum Product Ownership
The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni I am a big fan of Patrick Lencioni’s books, and The Advantage is no exception. In The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business, Lencioni asserts that the health of an organization is a better indicator of success than its intelligence. A healthy organization has minimal politics and confusion, high morale and […]
How to Measure the Effectiveness of a Daily Scrum
This technique is useful for having Scrum teams frequently inspect their execution of the Daily Scrum (also known as the daily stand-up) against a set of established goals. You can read about why I created this technique and the results I got with it here. 1. Establish the Goals Your Team Wants to Achieve There are […]
Anti-Goals of the Daily Scrum
What happens when a Scrum team doesn’t achieve the goals of the Daily Scrum? Other than getting the stink eye from the Scrum Master, it leads to a poor plan for the day, which can lead to bigger problems (like not achieving the Sprint Goal). The Anti-Goals Not checking progress toward the Sprint Goal Not […]
Goals of the Daily Scrum
When I walk away from a Daily Scrum, I am usually thinking one of three things: “Let’s do this!!!” (I know what the team’s mission for today is and am confident they will complete it) “Meh.” (The team has a plan for today but creating it wasn’t pretty) “What the crap just happened?!?” (The team doesn’t have a […]