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Test Plans in Agile | Coaching teams to do better scrum
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Test Plans in Agile. By Growing Agile on January 17, 2012. Talking to a test manager recently he mentioned that he often gets asked, “When do you do test plans in agile, if ever”. Since it is a common question I thought a blog post would be useful. First let me clear up a common misconception. Agile does not mean NO documentation, the agile manifesto. I think test plans are exactly that, they are the plan of what you are going to test and how. The process of coming up with the plan is probably the mo...
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Train your teams in Scrum | Coaching teams to do better scrum
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Train your teams in Scrum. By Growing Agile on September 2, 2013. Often companies get someone to train their team when they adopt Scrum, but a few months or years later, new staff have joined, others have left, and very few people remain who have received formal Scrum training. As a result companies suffer because people understand the mechanics of Scrum but not the principles and values behind it. This prevents them from effectively inspecting and adapting. Larr; I have moved. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Why Scrum Masters can’t be responsible for delivery | Coaching teams to do better scrum
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Why Scrum Masters can’t be responsible for delivery. By Growing Agile on December 17, 2011. Someone recently asked me if I could point them to some reading about whether Scrum Masters should be responsible for delivery or not. I strongly believe Scrum Masters should not be directly responsible for delivery, but after hunting online I can’t really find anything that talks specifically to this point. So I thought a blog post was in order. If the client wants an urgent patch for some issues, usually the Scr...
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I have moved | Coaching teams to do better scrum
https://scrumcoaching.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/i-have-moved
By Growing Agile on October 31, 2012. Okay so it’s been 6 months since my last blog post here. It’s time to admit that I can no longer keep this blog up to date. The good news is that I’m still blogging about Scrum and Agile, I’m just doing it on a different site. As mentioned in a previous post, I started Growing Agile with my good friend Sam Laing in January 2012. I now blog on the Growing Agile blog. Larr; Scrum Masters in Black. Train your teams in Scrum. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Join 50 other fol...
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Fixing Bugs in Scrum | Coaching teams to do better scrum
https://scrumcoaching.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fixing-bugs-in-scrum
Fixing Bugs in Scrum. By Growing Agile on November 10, 2011. The following post is inspired by an email I sent to our teams recently due to some confusion about when to fix bugs in Scrum. It generated 2 responses:. 1) Complete support from some (senior developer, architect and CTO) and. 2) Debate and disagreement from others (Product Owners). I will leave it to you to decide what you think. Keen to hear comments from either side. Warning: no one has swayed me in the other direction yet! Context switching...
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Improve your Scrum implementation in one week | Coaching teams to do better scrum
https://scrumcoaching.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/improve-your-scrum-implementation-in-one-week
Improve your Scrum implementation in one week. By Growing Agile on April 18, 2010. 1 Fix your Heartbeat. On Monday, after standup, spend 15 minutes with the team and agree:. Sprint length – if you can’t agree just vote. Sprint boundary day (the day you start and stop). If you are going to do review, retrospective and planning all in one day or split it over 2. When in the sprint you will do a backlog grooming/estimation session to get ready for the next planning. Once you have fixed your heartbeat, don&#...
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Scrum Puzzle #1 | Coaching teams to do better scrum
https://scrumcoaching.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/scrum-puzzle-1
By Growing Agile on September 23, 2011. It seems it has been a very long time since I did a blog post. I have good reasons. Since my last blog post I have:. Attended my first Agile Alliance Conference: Agile 2011. Presented 2 talks at Agile 2011. Had my first official paper. Published as part of the Agile 2011 conference proceedings. Helped Organise the second South African Scrum Gathering in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Co-trained CSM/CSPO courses in 3 continents. And so, Scrum Puzzle Number 1:. 3 Determ...
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Scrum Masters in Black | Coaching teams to do better scrum
https://scrumcoaching.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/scrum-masters-in-black
Scrum Masters in Black. By Growing Agile on April 9, 2012. I’ve been asked a lot about how to recruit good Scrum Masters. There is a shortage of experienced Scrum Masters in South Africa and as a result many companies are looking to hire people without experience but who are a good fit for the role. The tricky part is identifying what those people look like. Then I rewatched Men in Black…. They put a group of candidates through 2 tests. Larr; To Certify or Not to Certify. Thanks for your post! The respon...