by Martin Hinshelwood
In Scrum Events across the world, I hear repeated the phrase “that’s how agile works” when describing behaviours that are both unprofessional and the very opposite of an agile mindset. These behaviours will inhibit agility and are a result of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
One of my customers is hiring for the Scrum Master Role and asked if I had a handy-dandy Scrum Master Job Spec that they could use. I did not, but there have been a few good ones floating around in …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In the empirical world, we have 3 key skill areas of accountability that are needed to effectively deliver products of the highest possible value! We need Influencers that can provide leadership and create environments within which groups of people can …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Leadership is not about control, but about inspiring those around you. Managers transition to Leaders As organisations move towards modern management practices there will be less of a need for Managers. However that does not mean that those same people …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you were buying a car, or a TV, you as the purchaser would do your best to understand the product that you are buying, the quality tradeoffs, and the capabilities. All technical debt is a risk to the product …
by Martin Hinshelwood
The Scrum Guide only contains the minimum necessary to create an empirical process control system for managing risk. The new Kanban Guide reflects the minimum that you need to do to create a strategy for optimizing the flow of value …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Martin HinshelwoodJan 18, 2021·11 min readFor many people the traditional project management methodologies (see PMI / PRINCE2) are the root of the problems that birthed Waterfall. I assert that this is the tip of the iceberg. These methodologies are just …
by Martin Hinshelwood
For many people the traditional project management methodologies (see PMI / PRINCE2) are the root of the problems that birthed Waterfall. I assert that this is the tip of the iceberg. These methodologies are just a symptom of a greater …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In the The Evidence-Based Management Guide we talk about the Intermediate Strategic Goal and I likened that to the Product Goal in the 2020 Scrum Guide. If we also think of each Sprint as a tactical move towards fulfilling that …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Martin HinshelwoodJan 4, 2021·6 min readStory Points and velocity have been used for many years in the Scrum community and have been engrained so much in the way that things are done that most folks believe that they are part …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Story Points and velocity have been used for many years in the Scrum community and have been engrained so much in the way that things are done that most folks believe that they are part of Scrum. The accepted wisdom …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Gathering the metrics for Evidence-based Management in software organisations can be a strenuous task and I have a number of customers that are fretting on what to collect and from where. Here I try to create an understanding of the …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Value is such a subjective thing that we will often be wrong, and there is no way around that wrongness. In order to minimise the wrongness and maximise the amount of value that we deliver we need to have a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
The Evidence-Based Management Guide describes not only a Strategic Goal but also an Intermediate Strategic Goal that is needed to evaluate and adapt your progress towards your intended visions of your product. Reaching strategic goals requires experimenting, inspecting, and adapting …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Most Scrum Teams that I encounter don’t do refinement of their Product Backlog and try to work on things that they don’t understand correctly. However, if you get to the Sprint Planning event and your backlog is not ready, then …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In my last post about Professional software teams creating working software David Corbin made a good point. How do you determining what “Free from fault or defect” means? Since that is different for each Product and may change over time …
by Martin Hinshelwood
There is a better way than staggered iterations for delivery that will keep you on the path to agility.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Many teams are struggling with delivering modern software because they are not building with Test First principals. Test First gives us the assurance that we have built the correct thing, that what we built is what the customer asked for …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am always surprised at the number of teams that release undone work to production. I understand that one may need a few sprints, or many if you inherited something nasty, to pay back that debt, but if it’s more …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Assessment Details Passing score: 85%Time limit: 60 minutesNumber of Questions: 80Format: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer and True/FalseDifficulty: IntermediateLanguage: English onlyRequired course: NoneRecommended courses:Applying Professional Scrum (APS) Course with Certification, Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Course with CertificationPractice Assessment: Scrum OpenOther research: PSM …