Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller

Can an inexperienced development team without any senior members can implement scrum? While there's a debate on the necessity of technical excellence for scrum's foundation, one suggestion is to define a clear DOD (definition of done) to unify the team. By revisiting and evolving this definition, teams can incrementally improve and move towards better technical excellence and adopt more Scrum practices. Join us as we delve into this topic, with Todd showing an optimistic viewpoint and a surprising role reversal on our perspectives.

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In this episode, Todd and Ryan discuss what to do if you’re a Scrum Master whose team is performing so well you’re afraid of losing your job. Todd emphasizes analyzing your team under a broader sphere to see where gaps between your team and other teams may be. In addition, Ryan also emphasizes the importance of analyzing your team according to data, product rollout and overall customer satisfaction. Because although some teams appear to function well, it can take only a few sprints to show where the gaps lie.

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In this episode, Todd and Ryan discuss the do’s and don’ts of new product owners. Todd emphasizes the need to be decisive to ensure your people know who decides the order, and what your expectations are as the product owner. However, Todd also emphasizes the importance of being humble, and having a strong team of developers behind you.

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When dealing with working agreements gone wrong with a developer, we always hope that it’s a misunderstanding that can be solved with an easy conversation. In the cases where it’s not, we believe this is when a Scrum Master needs friends. Scrum Masters should always be willing to work with other areas of management such as leadership, financial, human resources, etc. If a developer is consistently breaking an agreement this is where we believe management should get involved to create a performance plan for that individual and hopefully resolve the issue.

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A YouTube viewer sent in a question asking about the typical day in the life of a Scrum Master. Todd and Ryan talk about what their days look like when they are in the Scrum Master role and how each day usually looks a little different. Check out the video to learn about the things you'll see as a Professional Scrum Master. Want to learn more about Scrum?

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Richie Peters has experience as a Scrum Master with a background in engineering management and has worked in various software companies.

Richie and Ryan discuss how Scrum implementations in organizations are challenging due to a lack of understanding and education about Agile principles among senior leadership. Executives often try to impose Scrum on the organization rather than aligning the organization with Agile values and principles.

Metrics and evidence-based management can help facilitate discussions with executives and demonstrate the effectiveness of Agile practices in delivering customer value with high quality.

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In their conversation, Todd and Ryan discussed some self-study resources for Flow Metrics and Evidence-Based Management (EBM). They suggested starting with their YouTube channel's EBM series and reading Dan Vacanti's book "When Will It Be Done" for a comprehensive dive into Flow Metrics. ProKanban.org was recommended for further information on Flow Metrics and Kanban. They also suggested visiting scrum.org for webinars, white papers, and other resources on EBM. Todd and Ryan hinted that there may be more resources for EBM. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

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Todd and Thomas introduce The Modern Software Developer Series and examine the Battle Ship codebase. Grab the repo, follow along, and learn new modern software developer techniques.

Battleship Case Studies can be found here:

https://github.com/proscrumdev

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Todd and Ryan address a question about handling unplanned work that is not measured in Sprint planning and affects a team's predictability in meeting Sprint goals. They recommend holding back capacity back in Sprint planning to account for the unplanned work and plan realistically rather than at 100% capacity. They suggest cutting capacity in half if about half of the work in a Sprint is unplanned. They also caution against equating predictability with maintaining the same velocity or throughput and recommend measuring unplanned work transparently and gathering data on it.

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The video discusses who should facilitate a Sprint review in a Scrum team. Todd and Ryan believe the Product Owner should be involved in the process to ensure the right stakeholders are present to adapt the product backlog. However, the Product Owner doesn't necessarily have to be the one facilitating the Sprint Review but should be responsible for sending invites and ensuring the right people are in attendance. The Sprint review is seen as an underserved event that provides an opportunity to adapt the product backlog.

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