Three Questions In Your Daily Scrum That Aren’t Working

By Robert Pieper |
Three monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

Are you asking three questions in your Daily Scrum? Are you getting three good answers? Are you effectively measuring progress? As an agile consultant, I’ve witnessed many Scrum teams struggle to see the value of the Daily Scrum. When I hear this complaint I always ask how their typical Daily Scrum goes. The problem can…

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Hybrid Agile delivery and minding the 3 risks

By Robert Pieper |
Caution sign

Several small and large organizations in a hybrid agile state have been my clients over the years. These organizations were stuck between Waterfall and Scrum. Some called that state “Water-Scrum-Fall”, some called it “Scrummerfall”. Regardless, they knew they hadn’t made a full transition agile delivery and are still working mostly the same as before. I…

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The Top 3 Scrum Team Mistakes Holding You Back

By Robert Pieper |
team frustration

If you’ve learned Scrum and tried to apply it in a large organization, you’ve probably hit some roadblocks. Getting dedicated people for your team is hard. Building a true cross-functional team is harder. Breaking work into small, valuable problems customers actually care about? That’s the hardest. After advising many Scrum teams, I see the same…

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