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ScrumMaster Murphy: Ten problems in the Daily Scrum, and what you can do about them!

March 25, 2009 by Peter Stevens

“If that team can find a way to revert to Waterfall, it will!” “Any team that can find a way back to Waterfall will find a way back to Waterfall!” These modern corollaries to Murphy’s Law haunt every Scrum transition and manifest themselves in the Daily Scrum. If the ScrumMaster lets it degenerate, the success of entire transition is called into question. 10 Warning signs that something is wrong in your Daily Scrum and what you can do to correct the problem.

The Daily Scrum is simple daily routine to help the team self-organize, focus, and identify and eliminate impediments to progress. As the backbone of the self-organizing team, the Daily Scrum has nearly nothing in common with a classical project meeting. Team members synch up with each other on what is being done and lay the ground work for self organization — which takes place after the Daily Scrum.

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Want to be an Independent Scrum Coach? Leverage the Community

January 28, 2009 by Peter Stevens


Fredi Schmidli talks at Scrum Breakfast about
Outsourcing and Scrum

As an employee wanting to become a Scrum Consultant, I knew Scrum, but didn’t have any customers. There was no established market for Scrum coaches nor were there any big companies doing Scrum projects. I couldn’t sell Scrum in the traditional sense, so I needed to help potential customers discover Scrum and make sure that they would find me when they got serious about doing Scrum. My solution was to build a Scrum community and this is how I did it.

If you are wondering how to become an independent Scrum coach, I would suggest starting or joining a local Scrum community. You can help make the market more interested in your chosen field and therefore in you. You can find other people who share your vision. You can become a magnet for requests for information. You can create an environment where you can meet new customers. You can do all this without a marketing department.

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