How to lead self-managing teams – Book review
To my surprise, there are a lot of parallels between leading self-managing teams and managing beehives. I recently read a great book called “How To Lead Self-Managing Teams?: A business novel on changing leadership from sheepherding to beekeeping” (affiliate...
Nexus – the scaling Scrum framework
Nexus is a framework, which builds on top of the scrum framework and is designed for scaling. It focuses on solving cross-team dependencies and integration issues. What is Nexus? The Nexus framework has been created by Ken Schwaber, co-creator of the Scrum framework....
Scrum values – new section in scrum guide
The scrum guide, the official description of the scrum working methodology, has been recently extended with a new section: the scrum values. Before we dive deeper in what the scrum values are about and what they mean, I want to give you a quick overview on the history...
Definition of story points
The definition of story points is not obvious. Many scrum teams use story points in their daily job, because they are better for estimations than hourly estimations for many reasons. But it is not clear how a story point is defined. If you ask google, then you get a...
