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...
by Ravi Verma | Jul 19, 2017 | Agile, Development Team, Empiricism, Evidence Based Management, Roles, Scaling, Scrum
True story – happened in one of my recent Professional Scrum Master workshops. I think had just mentioned that there is no “Sprint Commitment” in Scrum, only a “Sprint Forecast”. The eyes of one of my students lit up with glee. Uh-Oh, I...