Change is hard, especially going from a role you spent 10+ years being to another role that you have to learn while becoming. Stacy Rippey made that change; from application developer to Scrum Master. In this episode we discuss about her journey of becoming a Scrum Master.
Joined by Brad Sherman, Agile Coach and Consultant for over a decade, we talk about how teams using Scrum and other Agile frameworks are migrating through working remotely, and the impact that has on interacting with leadership, communication between team members and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Capacity and Velocity! Neither term is called out in the Manifesto of Agile Software Development, and only capacity is mentioned twice in the Scrum Guide. Velocity, a science term, is fairly new to the world of managing products, projects and services. However, Capacity is very familiar to this world. Most project managers use it to determine how…
In Agile and Scrum, our first responsibility is to deliver the customer working solutions that they can use. Not being colocated means that we have to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the team’s communication. Increasing the team’s communication can be done with JIRA, meetings, or some other device, but you must create processes or…