PMI-ACP, Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I), PMP, Sr. Software Developer
Awareness As I’ve grown in my understanding of the concept of self-organizing development teams I’ve become more aware of the ill effects of command and control management. It takes the life out of people, makes them dull, limits them, disrespects them. At the same time, the person doing the controlling feels stressed, maybe angry, alone …
The Background Here’s the background. I’m part of a small Scrum team that started work on a particular project over the summer. Our project manager, to whom most of the team reported organizationally, moved on from the company near the start of this project. We had a change of business analysts in September. I joined …
A Man After My Own Sense of Humor Before meeting Jeff Patton in person, I already appreciated his sense of humor as I’ve been reading his book, “User Story Mapping.” His dry humor was no less apparent when I met him at a recent Agile NYC Meetup. When I arrived to hear Jeff’s presentation on …
I earned the Professional Scrum Master I certification from Scrum.org today. The exam for this certification consists of 80 questions and has a one hour time limit. It was tougher than I expected. The questions that direct you to pick the best answer or the two best answers were tricky. There were several questions that …
This post is a response to Daniel Mezick’s invitation to explain my position on “The Agile Imposition,” as posted on Twitter: You're invited to explain your position on "The #Agile Imposition" to the entire world. Via a blog post, podcast, social media post or Youtube video. The goal is to advance understanding, in service to…PROGRESShttps://t.co/8T4PGqa6Y4#inviteorimpose …
(I originally posted this article at work for my colleagues.) Many of us are now working on Scrum teams, some starting recently and some for many months and more. Some of us have joined already existing, well-functioning Scrum teams. Some of us are founding members of teams that are trying to figure it out as …