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RE: [scrumdevelopment] Re: Scrum models - Type A, Type B, Type C

Deb

 

We did just that – blockages were on the big whiteboard at the front of the room and were mentioned every Scrum stand-up until they were sorted.  It didn’t mean everything was fixed the next day, but I’m sure they were resolved faster than if they had been hidden in the Scrum Master’s workbook.

 

Ian

 


--- In scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Sutherland"
<jeff.sutherland@c...> wrote:
>
> (As an aside, I noticed that new Scrum Masters do not track and
> eliminate blocks as aggressively as they track the backlog. The team
> needs to hold the Scrum Master responsible for eliminating blocks,
> particularly those outside the team. They should track them like
> backlog and have the Scrum Master report status on them at every
> meeting.)
>

Guilty! And you know, I think if we had, it would have made the "use"
of the Scrum meetings more apparent to team members. We should have
whiteboarded all blockages and crossed them off visibly as resolved.
Might have addressed the problem of blockages that slide along for too
many days, too.

I resolve to do this next time!





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For fun, I did a couple of Scrum consulting engagements this week in leading companies in the bay area and had some intensive discussions about the nature of...
Jeff Sutherland
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... is ... First of all my apologies (again) if this has been answered but I don't get much time to read these forums. I'm interested in what you mean by this...
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Jeff, Thank you for those observations, it shows again the importance of re-reading these early writings. ... In your opinion/observations, is this where the...
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No flame intended, but I'm not clear on what you mean by XP's continuous planning process. I thought XP's planning process was episodic in exactly the same way...
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Hi Ron, First: I've never run an XP project but I do run sprints, so I could be wrong. Scrum has a planning session, then a sprint, then a retrospective and...
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... If I understand you, and I think I do, it explains what you meant and is not correct. But I might not understand. Every iteration (two weeks), an XP team...
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Hi Ron, You're missing nothing, I did. I'll figure out where I got the opinion that I expressed. Most likely experience reports in the local meetings (which...
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Jeff, I hope your Scrum consulting engagements were not just for fun (i.e., you got paid!). You comments are quite relevent to the issues with how Mark...
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Let me add two more things: 1. It is well known that a little slack is necessary in "knowledge engineering" work to be able to keep a consistent pace and avoid...
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We've wrestled with this a little bit. Here are some general thoughts: 1. Down-time isn't necessarily bad. I've worried about whether Scrum can turn into a...
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There are good reasons to start with Scrum Type A with downtime between Sprints. It allows people to firmly establish the rythm of Scrum. However, the reason...
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Jeff, thank you for a very interesting message. I agree with you that type A is the best way to start with Scrum and I do belive you have to be comfortable...
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... Guilty! And you know, I think if we had, it would have made the "use" of the Scrum meetings more apparent to team members. We should have whiteboarded all...
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Fascinating stuff, Jeff. I wish I could "for fun" grab a few bay area consulting engagements. I'd definitely take the course that develops that skill! :) The...
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Reading the descriptions of types A, B and C in the earlier postings sparked my interest enough to read the original paper (thanks for the link Jens) and now I...
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Greg: You are probably right, and it is important to understand what critical thinkers said about what they understood at the time they wrote the words. That...
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Under a Scrum of Scrums approach, would blockages go onto a real-time backlog for the Scrum of Scrums team to work on collectively or would each Scrum Master...
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In the scrum of scrums in our world the scrum masters answer the questions 3. What has been done since the last time - by the team; by the scrum master,...
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Deb We did just that - blockages were on the big whiteboard at the front of the room and were mentioned every Scrum stand-up until they were sorted. It didn't...
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