Scrum Overview

This is a transcript for a video titled Scrum Overview. You can find the video on YouTube.
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Electronic Scrum Board vs Physical Scrum Board

As well as being an agile coach and scrum trainer, I’ve also dabbled in software development. A few weeks ago, I happened across an idea for a software application and I decided to use scrum to help me to create it. The experience reminded me why the location of the product backlog is so important.

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Scrum and Dependencies

I was working with a team of project managers recently and discussing how scrum works. One of the audience asked me how scrum teams handle third party dependencies. I answered as completely as I could but her response left me temporarily speechless.
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The Third Expectation

In my work as a coach, I regularly meet organizations that are excited about adopting scrum. In the face of that positive atmosphere, it’s hard to point out that scrum has hidden costs. In the past, I’ve always mentioned two sobering statistics. I’m just about to add a third.
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Transparency; The First Casualty of a Scrum Transition

The three pillars of empricism are: Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation. Without transparency, your inspection is rendered worthless and any adaptations based on that inspection are flawed. This is basic and obvious. Everyone can understand it. Yet many scrum adoptions suffer because of it.

Why do we make such an obvious and fundamental mistake? Here’s one perspective, and one solution.