Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller

Ryan and Todd look back at a 2006 post by Ken Schwaber, which covers 15 ways Scrum is both hard and disruptive. The seventh statement from Ken: "The use of Scrum to become an optimized product development and management organization is a change process that must be led from the top and requires change by everyone within the enterprise. Change is extremely difficult and fraught with conflict, and may take many years of sustained effort. Turnover of staff and management can be expected...

Ryan and Todd look back at a 2006 post by Ken Schwaber, which covers 15 ways Scrum is both hard and disruptive. The sixth statement from Ken: "The iterative, incremental nature of Scrum puts stress on the product development organization to improve its engineering skills and on the product management organization to optimize the return on investment of every release and project. The phrase, “That can’t be done here” really means that it will be very difficult to do so...

Ryan and Todd look back at a 2006 post by Ken Schwaber, which covers 15 ways Scrum is both hard and disruptive. The fifth statement from Ken: "Whenever an enterprise modifies or only partially implements Scrum, it is hiding or obscuring one or more dysfunctionalities that restrict its competence in product development and management...

Ryan and Todd look back at a 2006 post by Ken Schwaber, which covers 15 ways Scrum is both hard and disruptive. The fourth statement from Ken: "An enterprise can use Scrum as a tool to become the best product development and management organization in its market. Scrum will highlight every deficiency and impediment that the enterprise has so the enterprise can fix them and change into such an organization...

Ryan and Todd look back at a post written by Ken Schwaber in 2006 that covers 15 ways Scrum is both hard and disruptive. The third statement from Ken: 3. If waterfall suits current needs, continue using it. Here is the original white paper: https://www.verheulconsultants.nl/ScrumIsHardandDisruptive.pdf ???? Join Ryan & Todd's Scrum.org course: https://buytickets...

Ryan and Todd look back at a post written by Ken Schwaber in 2006 that covers 15 ways Scrum is both hard and disruptive. The second statement from Ken: 2. Scrum is optimized for high yield product management and product development. Scrum is particularly appropriate for high risk, complex, large projects and can be used when other parts of the endeavor are hardware or even waterfall development. Here is the original white paper: https://www.verheulconsultants.nl/ScrumIsHardandDisruptive...

Ryan and Todd look back at a post written by Ken Schwaber in 2006 that covers 15 ways Scrum is both hard and disruptive. The first statement from Ken: 1. Scrum is a framework for iterative, incremental development using cross-functional, self-managing teams. It is built on industry best practices, lean thinking, and empirical process control. Here is the original white paper: https://www.verheulconsultants.nl/ScrumIsHardandDisruptive...

???? Join us for an exciting episode of "Becoming a Scrum Master"! Today, we have the privilege of hosting Nichervan Fazel, an influential figure in the Scrum community. Host Ryan Ripley engages Nichervan in a thought-provoking discussion about his Scrum journey. From an early setback in product development to becoming a dedicated Scrum Master, Nichervan shares invaluable insights and experiences...

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Ryan and Todd discuss the uncertain and complex nature of recent layoffs, particularly in the tech industry, attributing them to various global events. Emphasizing a pragmatic approach to employment, they advise viewing the employer-employee relationship as a transactional exchange of time and talent for compensation. Todd and Ryan underscored the importance of continuous personal and professional development through various means like reading, networking, and utilizing online resources...