Part 1 outlined my experiences with Scrum in a PRINCE2 environment and outlined a number of conflicts betweenPRINCE2 Agile and Scrum as well as Agile principles. In Part 2, we look at likely conflicts from a roles and organisational design perspective. Conflicting Roles Conflicting Roles and Accountabilities The PRINCE2 Agile manual specifies that “all of…
Let’s start with a question. Which would you rather your organisation were more like: the British Civil Service; or a product innovator capable of out-manoeuvring a superpower’s market leaders? To boil it down to simple choices: if a) then choose PRINCE2 and forget Agile. Actually, even then PRINCE2 may not be a good way to…
Over the last few months I have been speaking in Sydney, Auckland and Wellington about Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS). I’ll be speaking about this in Melbourne too on August 19. An angle on this topic that I find particular relevant for just about anyone involved in Agile adoption is to discuss the organisational problems that LeSS…
I’m delighted to be appearing at the Prague Scrum Gathering in November to facilitate a workshop on ‘Principles to Practices for building your Scrum Mastery’ This evening I facilitated the first iteration of a workshop at the Sydney Scrum User Group meetup. Several participants requested a copy of the principles from this session. We are…
2010 sees Scrum WithStyle adding some some exciting new activities to our training. One that has proven particularly worthwhile is a multi-team Scrum simulation using Lego. As trainer, I play Product Owner and provide the teams with a vision and an initial Product Backlog. The teams then clarify the User Stories and we capture the…
There is a line in the latest (2011) Scrum Guide that says: The team of people performing the work of creating an Increment is the Development Team. Regardless of the work performed by individual team members, they are known as Developers. Schwaber and Sutherland The Scrum Guide This statement seems to have been be misunderstood…