by Ravi Verma | Oct 21, 2019 | Scrum
MENTAL MODELS “All models are wrong. Some are useful” -George Box The more I try to help individuals and organizations on the path to Professional Scrum, the more I realize that most needless suffering in the name of Scrum is due to a fundamental mis-match...
by Ravi Verma | Oct 21, 2019 | Scrum
Most executives who choose to spend time and money introducing Scrum into their organizations misunderstand it to be a delivery technique that helps you get more work from less people in less time with less money. The most important lesson I learned from Ken Schwaber...
by Ravi Verma | Oct 18, 2019 | Agile, Development Team, Empiricism, Evidence Based Management, Roles, Scaling, Scrum, Value
As a recovering manager I want to stop solving problems for teams So that I can enable self-organization… One of the biggest reasons I failed my first attempt at the Scrum.org PSM-1 assessment was that I had a habit of solving problems I had no business solving....
by Ravi Verma | Oct 17, 2019 | Agile, Definition of Done, Development Team, Empiricism, Evidence Based Management, Product Owner, Roles, Scaling, Scrum, Uncategorized, Value, Value
Over the past 10 years, I have had the privilege to guide Scrum adoption for organizations from 10 people to 10,000 people and have made some glorious, cringe-worthy mistakes that often wake me up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. As I look back at my...
