Posts Tagged scrummaster

Everyone Has a Voice in Retrospectives

Posted by David Bland in agile, retrospectives on March 1, 2010

It can be difficult to get team members to be vocal in retrospectives. I’m always wary of the stronger personalities controlling the conversation, and I’ve found that going around the room calling people out by name can have mixed results. After reading a recent article on effective retrospective formats, I decided to write my experience [...]

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Distributed Video Standup

Posted by David Bland in agile, scrum, tools on November 24, 2009

Distributed Teams need high bandwidth bidirectional communication to succeed, and the organization should provide these tools for collaboration. Luckily for us, Video Chat and Broadband are becoming more and more affordable so this is no longer an unrealistic goal. With a decent Video Chat setup you can teleconference with teams around the world and pick [...]

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What will you do tomorrow?

Posted by David Bland in agile, scrum on November 12, 2009

Distributed Scrum Teams can be a challenge on many different levels. In the past, I’ve attempted to explain this by deep diving into all of their idiosyncrasies while citing Jeff Sutherland’s excellent White Paper on the issue. I’d then draw communication diagrams and illustrate how bi-directional, high bandwidth communication is important instead of using uni-directional, [...]

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Agile Salary Trends

Posted by David Bland in agile, jobs, scrum, trends on October 29, 2009

Finding accurate salary data can be a somewhat daunting task, especially when dealing with anything Agile related. Recruiters sprinkle Agile terminology throughout online job postings with reckless abandon, however you can still sort through the noise to find useful Agile salary data. You only need to know where to begin. Luckily for us, Indeed.com has [...]

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10 Questions for Your Scrum Master Interview

Posted by David Bland in agile, jobs, scrum on July 5, 2009

So here you are, sitting across from a potential employer to interview for a Scrum Master position. The interviewer is prepared to ask you a series of questions to determine your worthiness, but where is your list? How do you determine if this is truly an agile company? Since I’ve been on both sides of [...]

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