Making promises you can keep WITHOUT Scrum Sprint Commitment using Classes of Service

By |2012-07-02T18:12:53-04:00July 2, 2012|Scrum, ScrumBan|

How can we make promises we can keep without a commitment to the sprint content? So I convinced you that the Scrum Sprint Commitment is not such a great idea. I convinced you it is mainly there for learning. You want to move to a commitment to try to meet the forecast instead of committing to deliver the whole forecast. But your Product Owner has a real problem with this. He understands all this learning rationale but his stakeholders want [...]

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The Scrum Sprint Commitment/Forecast as an Expectation

By |2012-06-30T17:56:57-04:00June 30, 2012|Change Management, kanban, Management, Scrum|

Disclaimer -  I'm a well-known Scrum Sprint Commitment basher. But in the last few weeks especially while processing the Lean Conference Boston Keynote by Steven Spear I have a fresh perspective I wanted to share. There is no improvement without learning One of Spear's key points was that there is no improvement without learning. There is no learning without surprises. There are no surprises without setting expectations. Specifically challenging expectations that will be missed occasionally. See a quote from one of [...]

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Scrum Sprint Commitment Rant

By |2011-10-13T10:55:09-04:00October 13, 2011|kanban, Metrics, Scrum|

Going on a Rant If there's one thing that makes me mad whenever I see it is teams abusing the commitment concept in scrum. I've been on a rampage against dysfunctional sprint commitments for a while now, but lately my thoughts have crystalized a bit, especially when I had a chance to discuss this with Jim benson, Alan Shalloway, Chris Hefley and Jon Terry last week at Lean Kanban Benelux 2011. Background So what is the problem? Well quite often [...]

My slides from Lean Kanban Benelux 2011 – Commitments and Energies in a Kanban system

By |2011-10-03T16:54:58-04:00October 3, 2011|Events, kanban|

I'm currently at LKBE11 enjoying the great lineup of speakers and great atmosphere. As for my part, I'm 50% done... Below is my Prezi for Commitments and Energies in a Kanban/Pull system. I'll share tomorrow's prezi tomorrow once I finish some last responsible moment tweaks based on things I heard today and want to emphasize / relate to. Enjoy and let me know what you think. Commitments and Energies in a Kanban System on Prezi

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