Ron Jeffries has up a post titled Opportunity to Advance the Craft about the Certified Scrum Developer program. He says: Here’s the good news: the camel has his nose well inside the tent. Here are some reasons why: and Whether we like it or not, the words ‘certified’ and ‘developer’ are going to be adjacent…
Tag: Agile
Developer Certification Isn’t About Hiring
In a recent post about Developer Certification, the author mentions hiring as the best way to find candidates, making developer certification about finding developers you can hire. And in many ways that makes sense – if you want the best, adjust your hiring process to find the best. But that’s not why the Certified Scrum…
Analyzing Our Words
Last night I was writing a message to the Scrum Development list when I saw something that struck me. The bottom of my screen showed me that I had received 33,227 messages since I first subscribed to it. I wondered, what have we said since March 27th, 2006 when I first joined? I then also…
Tools for Agility and Lean/Kanban Principles Presentations Now Available
This past weekend I gave two sessions at the South Florida Code Camp – Tools for Agility and Lean and Kanban Principles for Developers. Both presentations are now available on Slideshare at the above links. If you would like more information, or would like to have Cory help your organization adopt these practices and principles,…
Scrum Alliance Reflux
[Alternate Title: “If I have to talk about the Scrum Alliance any more, I’m going to vomit”] Yes, I want this to die. But Jesse Fewell has posted some thoughts around the Scrum Alliance that in fact what they are doing is right, and correct, and they should fix the leaks and stay the course….
..but if the Scrum Alliance Can’t Do It, Who Will?
Jesse Fewell has written a blog post called Scrum Is Dead. Long Live Scrum. His viewpoint is that the old Scrum is dead, and that it is morphing into something new. In the comments, Jesse asked the following question in response to my call for the Scrum Alliance to focus on the Software Community: Here’s…
They Could Have Been Contenders
There’s been a lot of talk in the agile community recently around Software Development Practices, or Engineering Practices, being in Scrum. Scrum, if you’ll remember, is brought up around the 3/3/3 – 3 Roles (ScrumMaster, Product Owner and “Otherâ€), 3 Artifacts (Burndown, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog) and 3 Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Review)….
10 Mistakes Adopting Agile
Want to really mess up your adoption of agile methods in your organization? Here are 10 mistakes I’ve come across with teams that will ensure an utter failure, Dilbert style. Not Reading the Principles of the Agile Manifesto – Everyone likes to quote (and misquote) the Agile Manifesto. But the manifesto is more than just…
Scrum Taught Us That We’re Doing Waterfall
Last week I spoke at the Pasco County .NET User’s Group here in Florida on Debugging .NET Applications with WinDBG and SOS. Afterwards we all met at a local restaurant and were talking about agile topics – the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. The leader of the group, Greg Leonardo then said a…
Facilitating High-Emotion Retrospectives
One of the more interesting things about facilitation is that you have to be prepared for just about anything. Retrospectives and exploratory sessions can generate very strong emotional responses – from yelling, to crying, to utter silence. However, most retrospectives are about improvement – part of the kaizen philosophy. At the end of the day,…