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The Value in the Scrum Values

Scrum.org

Somewhere along my journey of Scrum, that started in 2003, I started calling myself an independent Scrum Caretaker on a journey of humanizing the workplace with Scrum. Because there is more to Scrum than ‘process’. There is more to Scrum than rules, roles, practices and techniques. Values drive behavior.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

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Their paper provides useful insights into why the Scrum Framework might be so effective when it comes to managing complex work. Their article inspired me to apply the same insights to Scrum and to extend it with my own. A powerful example of the above can be witnessed in termite colonies (Camazine, 2003).

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In-Depth: How Coherence And Cohesion Are Critical To Scrum

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Do your Daily Scrums feel like a pointless ritual where everyone just lists what they’ve done yesterday, and what they do will do today? In our work with Scrum teams, we’ve been part of teams that had it. So Scrum was doomed from the start. We also explore how these insights create a strong foundation for the Scrum framework.

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The online workshop of Gunther Verheyen to discover “The value in the Scrum Values” is now available

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I have created a new, 3-hours workshop to guide people in the discovery of the value in the Scrum Values. The workshop includes cases I selected from my “Scrum Caretaker Book of Exercises” and will be followed by an informal, 30 minutes after-chat. Find all planned sessions of this specific Scrum Values workshop at my webshop.

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What do you call a Product Owner with no authority?

Kiron Bondale

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. Having worked with multiple companies who have struggled with Scrum, ineffective POs are one of the more common challenges I’ve encountered. If I had to pick the most common weakness I’ve observed, it was a lack of availability.

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Is Blue-print Thinking Limiting The Potential Of The Agile Community?

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Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? Do you rarely consider how to build coalitions and persuade people in power to support your work with Scrum? Are you thinking about the psychological needs of people and how to motivate them to work with Scrum? Back to frameworks.

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Surprise. I am no wizard. Agile nor Scrum.

Gunther Verheyen

I regularly get inquiries from people reaching out for instructions, assistance, or other forms of guidance to learn about Scrum, pass exams, become a trainer, or advance their career towards “Agile coach” Surprise. 2) I have always been and am still all about Scrum. I am no wizard. And I spent 7 years (seven!)

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