Scrum

Do you want to recruit a great Scrum Master?  Or perhaps you want to clarify roles and responsibilities in agile delivery? Today I’m giving away a Scrum Master job description template for you to download. In a number of my roles I have either set up Scrum Teams from scratch or have recruited a Scrum Master as my replacement (or …

When trying to explain the Scrum roles to either managers outside the Scrum or the newly formed Scrum, here’s a little metaphor I developed early 2015 that might help. My Story of how Whatties and Howies came about… My goal as a Scrum Master is to find the fastest way I can get people to grasp any concept and run …

I remember one day I turned up for my first day on a contract as a Scrum Master and asked the sponsor “So where’s my Product Owner?”  To which he replied, “What’s that?  This is the first time I’ve heard of it.” It never ceases to amaze me that people who say they are going to do Scrum and don’t …