What can I say… I love both Scrum and Chess … I can draw parallelism between these two in terms of my state of consciousness when I am scrimmaging with teams or playing tournament chess. […]
Category: Scrum
The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum
Currently enjoying reading “The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum“ I recommend this book. Written by Dave West (CEO of Scrum.org) with two others…with foreword by Ken Schwaber (co-founder of Scrum). It is promising… I love […]
Mission: Impossible (The Movie) and Scrum
Question: What is common between Ethan’s Mission Impossible (MI) team and a Scrum team? Answer: 1) both are willing to commit to a goal; 2) both have the notion that a team of people will […]
Pigs and Chickens
A chicken and a pig are together when the chicken says, “Let’s start a ‘Bed and Breakfast’ business!” The pig replies, “What would we call this ‘Bed and Breakfast’ business?” The chicken says, “Ham and […]
The Power of Pull
An idea pushed to people is less successful in terms of its appreciation compared to an idea pulled in by the people. Example: a speaker who is simply dumping information to the audience is less […]
Mission: The Art of the Possible
“One of the fundamentals of Scrum is ‘the art of the possible.’ That is, Scrum instructs teams not to dwell on what can’t be done, but to think about what can be done” — Ken […]
What is the Heart of Scrum?
“The heart of Scrum is assessing the condition of activities and empirically determining what to do next.” — Ken Schwaber, Inventor of Scrum (with Jeff Sutherland) Empiricism: Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation. Determination of what to do […]
Teaching Rewards Us All
If you teach someone how to play chess, you have someone to play with. If you teach chess to few more people, we have more people to play with. Pretty soon, we can all have […]
