Devops for Growth
107.5K views | +0 today
Follow
Devops for Growth
For Product Owners/Product Managers and Scrum Teams: Growth Hacking, Devops, Agile, Lean for IT, Lean Startup, customer centric, software quality...
Curated by Mickael Ruau
Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...

Popular Tags

Current selected tag: 'PSM2'. Clear
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Préparation à la certification Professional Scrum Master de niveau II

L'évaluation Professional Scrum Master de niveau II (PSM II) est accessible à toute personne souhaitant démontrer sa capacité à appliquer le framework Scrum pour résoudre des problèmes avancés et complexes dans le monde réel. Avant de tenter le passage de la PSM II, vous devez avoir des connaissances avancées de Scrum et une expérience approfondie de Scrum. Suivre une formation SCRUM n'est ni nécessaire ni suffisant pour obtenir cette certification. L'évaluation PSM II est difficile et consiste en des questions à choix multiples basées sur votre connaissance de Scrum et la façon dont vous géreriez des situations du monde réel.

Note minimale pour le succès : 85%
Nombre de questions: 30 (15 pour cette simulation)

Mickael Ruau's insight:

Un exerciseur pour préparer la certifiication Scrum PSM2

No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Scrum, velocity, and driving down the motorway the wrong way

Scrum, velocity, and driving down the motorway the wrong way | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it


Velocity is in essence a negative metric - it can tell you that something is wrong, but not that something is good. Blood pressure is a good example of a negative metric: high blood pressure is a clear signal that something is wrong, but a normal blood pressure does not give anyone enough information to conclude anything about someone’s health. Even worse, the easiest way to instantly reduce high blood pressure would be to chop someone’s head off, but it would be a far stretch to claim that the patient would be healthier. Many managers new to Scrum, and metric-obsessed Scrum masters, do exactly that to their teams by slavishly using velocity as the primary measure of progress.
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

What is Scaling Scrum?

What is Scaling Scrum? | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Scaled Professional Scrum is based on unit of development called a Nexus. The Nexus consists of up to 10 Scrum teams, the number depending on how well the code and design are structured, the domains understood, and the people organized. The Nexus consists of practices, roles, events, and artifacts that bind and weave the work…
Mickael Ruau's insight:

 

So you can have hundreds and hundreds of Scrum teams working on the same product area. However, when you have functionality that requires more than nine or so teams you have two choices:

  1. Build architectural and platform structures (IOS, API, etc.) that defines how the functionality from each set of Scrum teams must deliver and interoperate.
  2. and/or take longer and only do as much as the nine or so teams can do at once. Then do more. Then do more.
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Articles We Recommend

Articles We Recommend | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Jeff Sutherland articles: Scrum and CMMI – Going from Good to Great by Jakobsen and Sutherland.  Systematic. Mature Agile with a twist of CMMI by Carsten Ruseng Jakobsen, Kent Aaron Johnson. Systematic. Take No Prisoners by Sutherland and Altman Shock Therapy by Sutherland, Downey and Granvik Scrum in Church by Rev. Arlene Conan Sutherland, Jeff …
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

How to use Evidence-Based Management and Scrum (Part 1): Bridging EBM goals with the Scrum Guide  | Scrum.org How to use Evidence-Based Management and Scrum (Part 1): Bridging EBM goals with the Sc...

How to use Evidence-Based Management and Scrum (Part 1): Bridging EBM goals with the Scrum Guide  | Scrum.org How to use Evidence-Based Management and Scrum (Part 1): Bridging EBM goals with the Sc... | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
This part I of a three-part series will focus on goals. We’ll examine how the goals set out in the EBM guide correspond to the Scrum Guide and some tools and formats for setting workable goals. Part II will focus on experimentation, and Part III will focus on measurement. This part I of a three-part series will focus on goals. We’ll examine how the goals set out in the EBM guide correspond to the Scrum Guide
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Tips for the PSM I, PSPO I, and PSK Exams :: Management Plaza

Tips for the PSM I, PSPO I, and PSK Exams :: Management Plaza | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Now that you're done learning Scrum and/or Kanban, it's time to review a few tips that will be useful in your PSM I, PSPO I, or PSK exam.
Mickael Ruau's insight:

Be Careful with Compatibility

There are many resources for Scrum and Kanban, but not all of them are compatible with these exams — even some of them that come from reputable authors. So, be careful with that.

How Many Choices?

The PSM, PSPO, and PSK exams are not normal multiple‑choice exams. You may have questions that ask you to select more than one choice (e.g., Which two of the following are…). You wouldn’t believe how many people miss that and just pick one choice!

So, read the question carefully to understand when more than one choice is required. Sometimes, the question specifies the number of choices, and sometimes it just tells you to pick multiple choices. The choices in these questions have check-boxes (small squares) instead of radio buttons (small circles); so, make sure you get used to noticing that as well.

NOT!

“Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of…”

“All of the following are responsibilities of… EXCEPT for…”

Sadly, many people miss these capitalized negative words and pick the wrong answer. This is more common when the question is more complicated and you become so engaged in assessing the correctness of the statements that you forget the question was asking for the wrong statement instead of the right one.

Be very careful with this type of question, and pay serious heed to it if you make this mistake in your simulated exams.

Damned Details!

You know that the Daily Scrum meetings are for the Development Team members, and only they are required to attend the meeting. Others can still go there and observe them — even people from other projects (to learn something new from them) — but they only observe, and they shouldn’t talk.

Take these statements:

  1. The Product Owner can attend the Daily Scrum meetings.
  2. The Product Owner can participate in the Daily Scrum meetings.

Are these statements true or false?

The first one is simple: It’s true. The second one, however, is false because “participate” implies engagement, whereas everyone except the Development Team members is only supposed to be observing.

There are many questions like this, where a single word changes everything. You need to be careful with it.

Modal Verbs

Let’s continue the example from the previous tip. What do you think about the following statements?

  1. The Product Owner can attend the Daily Scrum meetings.
  2. The Product Owner should attend the Daily Scrum meetings.

While the first statement is true, the second one is false, and it’s all because of the modal verbs. It’s correct that the Product Owner is allowed to attend the meeting, but it doesn’t mean that it’s necessary for them to be there.

In case you’re wondering, in the exam, “can” means “may”, and “should” means “ought to”/“required to”, similarly to the way English is used by most people nowadays.

Look It Up!

The PSM, PSPO, and PSK exams are in open-book format, so, you should make sure you take advantage of that. Have a copy of the Scrum Guide (and also the Kanban for Scrum Teams Guide for the PSK exam) open and ready for reference. As well as this, while you’re practicing with the sample questions, write down all the points that are troubling you, organize them, and have them ready to use during your exam. It’s better to write your notes in a file rather than on paper, so that you can search them easily.

Note that the amount of time you have for each question is less than what you have in most other exams, and you can only look up the concepts when you’ve had enough practice, you manage your time perfectly, and you’re completely familiar with the resources you’re using. So, again, remember to practice this in your simulated exams.

The Scrum Guide

Things would have been much easier if the Scrum Guide could be used to answer every question, but that’s not the case. Most questions in the exam cannot be answered based solely on the Scrum Guide, so, don’t expect otherwise.

Besides the above, some questions in the exam are based on certain interpretations of the Scrum Guide (the way Scrum.org sees it). For example, how many Product Owners do we have in scaled Scrum? One of the co-authors of the Scrum Guide believes that there must be one and only one Product Owner, no matter how many teams you have, while the other co-author believes that it’s a good idea to have multiple Product Owners, and a Chief Product Owner. Which one do you think is supported in the Scrum Guide? Both!

Finally, some points in the Scrum Guide are not clear enough; for example, the number of Definitions of Done for multiple teams, and what most people understand based on the guide, which is different from what they are expected to answer in the exam.

No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Stop escalating impediments. Support the team to solve them. –

Stop escalating impediments. Support the team to solve them. – | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Got blockers? Don’t leave them til the Standup and don’t remove them yourself. Help the team to self-organise!
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Team Success Metrics

Team Success Metrics | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Are we successful as a Team? Can we measure that? We look at 10+ areas of team success and how to measure them.Get inspired to choose the metric you need…...
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Scrum Values During Scrum Events — Daily Scrum | by Lavaneesh Gautam | Serious Scrum | Nov, 2020

Scrum Values During Scrum Events — Daily Scrum | by Lavaneesh Gautam | Serious Scrum | Nov, 2020 | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Scrum Values can be demonstrated and used anywhere within Scrum Framework: By all 3 accountabilities, during each event, and also during each Artifact creation/maintenance. This is the first article…
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Melissa Perri’s Product Kata –

Melissa Perri’s Product Kata – | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
(Based on a post on Melissa's namesake blog, link here. Melissa offers training on this topic and others at melissa@produxlabs.com.) Learning is a key component of product development—one which is frequently minimized or skipped entirely Background 4 steps of Mike Rother's Toyota Kata 5 steps of Mike Rother's Coaching KATA What is the target condition? What are…
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Misconceptions About Scrum By the Book | by Jasper Bogers | Serious Scrum | Oct, 2020

Misconceptions About Scrum By the Book | by Jasper Bogers | Serious Scrum | Oct, 2020 | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
In every organization and in every team, I run into one or two customs that people tell me are part of “Scrum by the book”, that aren’t actually in the book. The book I’m referring to in this case is…
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

So you think Scrum = Agile training wheels? | by Willem-Jan Ageling | Serious Scrum

So you think Scrum = Agile training wheels? | by Willem-Jan Ageling | Serious Scrum | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Every once in a while I come across the interesting notion that Scrum is “Agile training wheels”. Scrum would be the ideal framework to start Agile. I do understand where this is coming from, but I…
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Money for nothing | Change for free | Jeff Sutherland

Money for nothing | Change for free | Jeff Sutherland | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it


Boris had invited to an event that gave all participants of this event the chance to talk to Jeff Sutherland directly.The meeting was run like a speed dating event. Every 20 minutes the people on one table needed to change to another table.This format created a very good atmosphere and a very high communication saturation. Jeff Sutherland introduced this word because he works with James Coplien and he is an specialist for mapping communication saturation of teams. The theory behind this says that a team is most productive, when everybody in the team knows everything. (See Copliens article Patterns on Productive Organizations).

Jeff Sutherland - Scrum Brunch - Vienna

The other new idea of Jeff was to show the audience the way to leave the Fix Price / Fix Date trap, by follow the Money for Nothing, Change for Free escape. It is a very intuitive way of convincing customers, especially people who are in charge of budget to use an agile development approach. You can see this approach in any training that is given by Jeff or myself.
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Motivational Aspects of Scrum: How the Process Drives Focus and Helps Mobilize Creative Energy

Motivational Aspects of Scrum: How the Process Drives Focus and Helps Mobilize Creative Energy | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it


In his new book, “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance,” Steven Kotler discusses flow triggers – circumstances that facilitate the entry into the flow state Kotler groups the 17 flow triggers into several buckets: psychological, environmental, social and creative. Since we are attempting to explain team performance, our interest lies primarily in the social triggers, defined as “ways to alter social conditions to produce more group flow”. It is uncanny how Scrum is almost precisely designed around these triggers. Could this be the reason why, as Scrum evangelists claim, you can get more done faster, with fewer people, and with higher quality, effectively breaking the “iron triangle”?

Most of Kotler’s social and environmental flow triggers map closely to Scrum practices or principles. Let’s look at the ones that fit:

Serious concentration: To create flow in social settings, you need to ensure everyone has their maximum attention to the here and now, and is blocked off from other distractions. Scrum practices frozen scope for timeboxed iterations, i.e. no changes in the team’s direction are allowed during a sprint. This is done in order to create the necessary period of uninterrupted, focused work, which is precisely what the teams need to achieve higher levels of productivity.
Shared, clear goals: Groups need to be clear about what their collective goal is in order for flow to happen. Practices described above, like information radiators and visualizing things like scope, progress and task status serve exactly that purpose.
Good communication: This one is almost self-explanatory. Constant communication is necessary for group flow, according to Kotler. Scrum practically forces constant, open, intense many-to-many communication, where everyone not only has a voice, but is fully expected to use it.
Familiarity/common language: Kotler stresses the importance of common language, a shared knowledge base and a communication style based on unspoken understandings. This is almost precisely the description of the emergent tacit knowledge emphasized by all Agile methods.
Equal participation: Flow is most likely to happen in a group setting when all participants have an equal role in the project. This is reflected in the cross-functional and self-organizing nature of Scrum teams, as well as such practices as collective code ownership (which stems from Extreme Programming but is widely used by many Scrum teams).
Risk: There’s no creativity without failure, and there’s no group flow without the risk of failure. The group has to have some skin in the game to produce group flow. Scrum teams are constantly making clear commitments to their customer (internal or external, in the case of outside partner teams) and there is always the risk of underdelivering on those commitments.
Sense of control: Kotler defines sense of control as the combination of autonomy (being free to do what you want) and competence (being good at what you do). Again, this is precisely how Scrum is set up: competent, highly motivated, self-organizing, cross-functional teams that are not micromanaged, but rather choose their own implementation path and are accountable to the customer for the ultimate results.
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

How To Measure The Success Of A Scrum Master?

How To Measure The Success Of A Scrum Master? | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Reflections and findings triggered by the experience interview with Jimmy Janlén.
Mickael Ruau's insight:

Spoiler-alert: the magic silver-bullet answer didn’t emerge. We did have a very interesting conversation. In short: it’s very difficult to measure because even if a team or organization is successful, are they successful because of your contribution, or despite it?

No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Why the Nexus Daily Scrum is not Scrum of Scrums: 4 Differences Every Scrum Master Needs to Know

Why the Nexus Daily Scrum is not Scrum of Scrums: 4 Differences Every Scrum Master Needs to Know | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Scrum of Scrums describes one of the first approaches to scale Scrum and is often confused with Nexus Daily Scrum.  
Mickael Ruau's insight:

 

The differences between Nexus Daily Scrum and Scrum of Scrum

 

The Nexus Daily Scrum differs from Scrum of Scrum by:

  • The Nexus Daily Scrum occurs before the teams' Daily Scrum instead afterward, as in Scrums of Scrum. 
  • No problems are solved in the Nexus Daily Scrum, only identified. The resolution then takes place in the individual Scrum teams. 
  • The Nexus Daily Scrum is not about reporting the status of the individual teams, but about reviewing progress towards the Nexus Sprint goal. 
  • No improvements are maintained in a separate backlog, but newly identified dependencies are visualized in the Nexus Sprint Backlog.

In summary, the Nexus Daily Scrum is not a Scrum of Scrums. The Nexus Daily Scrum, just like the Daily Scrum, is a planning meeting and not a problem-solving or reporting meeting as in the case of Scrum of Scrums.

 

No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

8 Tips for Scrum Masters to Improve Cross-Team Refinement in Nexus

8 Tips for Scrum Masters to Improve Cross-Team Refinement in Nexus | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
How effectively a Nexus works depends on its ability to eliminate dependencies. Eliminating dependencies simplifies integration. Scrum Masters who efficiently perform cross-team refinements save time. Saving time saves money. 
Mickael Ruau's insight:

Feature Bazar: Scrum teams pitch which Product Backlog items they want to work on

 

At a Feature Bazar, the Product Owner presents the new features. Afterward, the teams select the topics they want to work on. Each feature should be chosen by at least two teams. By assigning teams to the features, the initial overview for the Cross-Team Refinement is quickly created. 

 

Update the Cross-Team Refinement Board daily

 

Just as the Nexus Sprint Backlog is updated daily in the Nexus Daily Scrum when new dependencies occur in the current Sprint, the Cross-Team Refinement Board should also be updated daily. Only when the Cross-Team Refinement Board represents a real-time picture of all known dependencies, is it easy for the teams to resolve them.

 

The Nexus updates the Cross-Team Refinement Board daily. Image by Richard Hundhausen. 

Representatives of the teams participate in the Cross-Team Refinement

 

Inviting all members of the Scrum teams to the Cross-Team Refinement is often neither practical nor necessary. In order to proceed in a focused manner, only representatives of the individual teams should be invited. Scrum teams select their representatives based on the work to be refined. Domain and technical knowledge are good selection criteria to quickly identify appropriate team members. 

 

Alternate team and cross-team refinement

 

In cross-team refinement, cross-team dependencies are uncovered, eliminated, and forecasts are made about which team is likely to work on which Product Backlog item. In contrast, in team refinement, Product Backlog items are broken down, detailed, and estimated. Often, new cross-team dependencies are found in the team refinement. To eliminate these dependencies as quickly as possible, it makes sense to constantly alternate team and cross-team refinement. 

 

Cross-team refinement should be a regular meeting

 

To reduce unnecessary scheduling, cross-team refinement should always take place on the same date. For me, it has proven successful to reserve at least one afternoon a week for the Cross-Team Refinement.

 

Not just visualize dependencies, but eliminate them 

 

Visualizing dependencies in the Nexus Sprint Backlog to make them transparent is only the first step. The critical step is to consistently eliminate dependencies between teams. Ways to eliminate dependencies are: Interchange features between teams, break down Product Backlog items, build up missing knowledge in the team and change the likely possible processing order.

 

Nexus Integration Team provides awareness of cross-team dependencies

 

In their daily teamwork, Nexus Integration Team members constantly keep an eye out for potential dependencies. If new dependencies are discovered, they encourage team members to make them transparent at the Cross-Team Refinement Board and look for ways to eliminate them early. In the long run, this creates awareness of the impact of cross-team dependencies within the teams. 

 

Don't fall into the waterfall trap: Don't plan too far in advance, focus on the next sprint

 

Software development is complex. There are unknown unknowns. Therefore, it is impossible to anticipate all dependencies in advance, no matter how long refinement and planning are done. To avoid wasting time, the nexus should only refine the next one to three sprints in advance. 

 

Trying to anticipate the implementation sequence of the Product Backlog is like a faucet: the further we turn it on, the closer we are to the waterfall. 

No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide: Q&A with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

Changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide: Q&A with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
The Scrum Guide has been updated to make it less prescriptive, using simpler language to address a wider audience. These changes have been done to make Scrum a “lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems”. An interview with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland about the changes to the guide.
Mickael Ruau's insight:

Key Takeaways

  • Over the years, the Scrum Guide started getting a bit too prescriptive. The 2020 version brings Scrum back to being a minimally sufficient framework by removing or softening prescriptive language.
  • The 2020 Scrum Guide has placed an emphasis on eliminating redundant and complex statements as well as removing any remaining inference to IT work, and is now only 13 pages long.
  • The 2020 version brings together everyone as one team, the Scrum Team, while previous versions had the Development Team within the Scrum Team.
  • The three artifacts, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Increment now contain ‘commitments’ to them. For the Product Backlog it is the Product Goal, the Sprint Backlog has the Sprint Goal, and the Increment has the Definition of Done.
  • It is important for teams to remember that Scrum is still Scrum. Scrum is a framework. It describes the bare minimum to enable a team to work on complex work.
 

The Scrum Guide has been updated to make it less prescriptive, using simpler language to address a wider audience. These changes have been done to make Scrum a "lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems".

The changes between 2017 and 2020 Scrum Guides are:

  1. Even less prescriptive
  2. One team, focused on one product
  3. Introduction of product goal
  4. A home for Sprint Goal, Definition of Done, and Product Goal
  5. Self-managing over self-organizing
  6. Three sprint planning topics
  7. Overall simplification of language for a wider audience
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

3 Tech Debt Metrics Every Engineer Should Know - DZone Agile

3 Tech Debt Metrics Every Engineer Should Know - DZone Agile | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Learn how to measure technical debt and how to make the most out of your tech debt budget so you can boost productivity.
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

Scrum Commitments — Delving into the Scrum Guide 2020

Scrum Commitments — Delving into the Scrum Guide 2020 | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Scrum Commitments: Tying Loose Ends and Shoehorning the Definition of Done — Age-of-Product.com analyzing the Scrum Guide 2020.
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

To all Scrum Masters: please step up your game | by Maarten Dalmijn | Serious Scrum

To all Scrum Masters: please step up your game | by Maarten Dalmijn | Serious Scrum | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Now that I’ve got your attention, I apologize for the spicy title. To be fair, you’ve been writing a lot of juicy articles on how we as Product Owners can do better. Recent ones that come to mind are…
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

The Product Kata

Learn how to build a profitable product with our 6-week, part-time Prod MBA programme:
https://productmastery.co/prod-mba

How to build better products using user data
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

15. The Product Kata - Escaping the Build Trap [Book]

15. The Product Kata - Escaping the Build Trap [Book] | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
Chapter 15. The Product Kata As discussed earlier, and as seen in Figure 15-1, The Product Kata is the process by which we uncover the right solutions to build. … - Selection from Escaping the Build Trap [Book]
No comment yet.
Scooped by Mickael Ruau
Scoop.it!

The Product Kata —

The Product Kata — | Devops for Growth | Scoop.it
A while ago, I was introducing the  Kanban Kata by Hakan Forss  to a team that was struggling to meet their deadline. They had failed twice before and their jobs were in jeopardy. Implementing Continuous Improvement and Kata helped the teams crea
No comment yet.