Tobias Mayer is perhaps one of the more influential scrum trainers. (He’s definitely one of the most provocative.) His blog, “Agile Anarchy” has a new post about the importance of the scrum board to the scrum process as a whole. I wanted to jump up and down when I read it. It speaks to me [...]

After a hiatus, here are some scrum links for you to expand your knowledge and hone your craft. I found Jeff Patton’s ‘Story Map‘ to be a useful discussion on an alternative to the 1-dimensional product backlog. It was also the basis of one of the Open Spaces sessions at the recent Orlando gathering. This [...]

Kicking off with the latest from Jeff Sutherland. Jeff recently gave a talk on ‘Scrum Shock Therapy’. Similar to the approach apparently used in MySpace, Jeff advocates a ‘shock and awe approach’ described in this blog post. It’s kind of a rough change management process and will likely cause some unhappiness. My take is that [...]

Mike Freislich kicks us off with his first article submission to the link page “Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams” – Henrik Kniberg Henrik Kniberg has a wealth of good Scrum literature behind him. Part of the strength of his writing style is that he keeps it real and practical by pointing out mistakes that [...]

We kick off this week’s link fest with sex orgies. Jurgen Appelo’s post on how scrum uses peer pressure in a positive way can be found here. I enjoy his writing and he uses a cool technique for creating a scrum team, by getting them to cook dinner for him. I like it ‘cos I [...]