Who are your Phone-A-Friend Lifelines?

Life is difficult and complex. Nobody knows the correct solution to every problem that might appear. But there is a simple strategy to improve your chances: Call a Friend. Or a coworker. Or the Internet. Its easy. It often solves the problem. It creates ties to new people and strengthens the ties to people you [...]

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You Might be Done but You’ll Never be Done

In our Scrum time we have a Definition of Done posted to the office wall. It’s nice. It tells us when a task is done. It’s not easy to achieve everything required every time. But it is possible. There exists also another Definition of Done. It isn’t written down anywhere. And it is completely useless: [...]

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Scrum is not an End, it is a Way

As the regular reader of this blog (Welcome back!)  already knows I am involved in my first Scrum project and I also see various projects doing Scrum all around me. And this is great. But in a couple of discussions lately a question popped up: Do we really do Scrum? Or do we only Scumbut [...]

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