Check out the video below of William Strydom presenting on "Servant Leadership" at Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). William explores what servant leadership is and where servant leadership came from along with examples of servant leaders in our world and where to find more information about servant leadership. https://youtu.be/XqEqdZ56Xko Servant Leadership by William Strydom
Check out the video below of Michael Hamman presenting on "The Art and Practice of the Agile Leader" at Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Michael presents some perspectives on the role and the path of the transformational Agile Leader. First, he inquires into what is meant by “transformation” (it probably doesn’t mean what you think…
Check out the video below of Adam Parker presenting on "Finding Lean in Agile: What They Can Learn From Each Other" at the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Adam explores the connections between Lean and Agile. What is shared? What's similar? What can each learn from the other? And why highly performing teams from both…
Check out the video below of Shawn Faunce presenting on "The Awkward Teenager of Testing by Shawn Faunce" at the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Shawn emphasizes the expected outcome and value proposition of a successful exploratory testing program along with some lessons learned adopting such a program. https://youtu.be/jdPL9BZyuzc The Awkward Teenager of Testing by…
Check out the video below of Mathias Eifert presenting on "Impact Mapping - How to Make Value Driven Prioritization a Reality" at the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Mathias explores how impact maps support multiple stakeholders in gaining consensus on which features or actions are most useful to help us achieve an organizational goal. In…
Check out the video below of Jeremy Webb presenting on "Happiness, A Key Component of Agile" at the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Jeremy shares how modern research has revealed a great deal about what makes us happy and how that relates to our personal and professional lives. As we learn more, we are discovering…
Check out the video below of Trent Hone presenting on "Kanban and the Power of Distributed Cognition" at the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Trent explores how Kanban is a powerful tool. Like all tools, it has the potential to influence the way we think and how we approach our problems. Successful implementations reduce friction,…
Check out the video below of Mike Coottmeyer presenting on "Why Agile is Failing in Large Enterprises" at Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Mike explores why so many large-scale agile transformations are struggling. Some have failed. Others can’t figure out why things aren't working after multiple attempts. It’s easy to blame the people, the process,…
Check out the video below of Michael Hamman presenting on "The Agile Leader: The Inner and the Outer Game: Knowing, Doing, Being" at the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Michael explores a holistic framework for both understanding the role of the Agile Leader and appreciating what the Agile Leader needs to Know, Do and Be…
Check out the video below of Jeff Sutherland presenting on "Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" at the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Jeff shares how Scrum is reshaping how the Department of Defense does business and fights wars, how the FBI tracks criminals, and how Treasury finds deadbeat…
Check out the video below of Heather Phythyon presenting on "How to Maximize Positives and Minimize Negatives of Remote Agile Teams" at the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Heather shares her experience working on different kinds of remote agile teams. https://youtu.be/dyArLtBzBos How to Maximize Positives and Minimize Negatives of Remote Agile Teams by Heather Phythyon
Check out the video below of Fabiola Eyholzer presenting on "Agile HR" at the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). Fabiola explores how transforming your organization into an agile enterprise is no small deed. And it does not matter where you are on your way towards embracing agility on all levels. There will be a time…
Check out the video below of JJ Sutherland presenting on "Agile Leadership" at the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG). JJ explores how Agile requires major changes in organization, management philosophy, and operations. In our modern moment Agile and Scrum are tossed around by leaders as the newest management fad. What leadership has to recognize is…
Product Increment and the Definition of Done An Increment, broadly defined, is an increase or addition, especially when that addition represents one of several steps in a sequence. In Scrum, the Development Team works to deliver a new Increment of the product every Sprint. Each Increment is a new, updated, usable version of the product, so…
Sprint Backlog Next: Product Increment and the Definition of Done During Sprint Planning, the Scrum Team creates two outputs: the Sprint Goal and the Sprint Backlog. The Sprint Goal is a high-level objective that provides guidance to the Development Team on why the work of that Sprint is important. It could be a customer outcome, a…