Joseph Perline’s 3 Rules: #We don’t make mistakes, we learn. #Whoever carries the risk, decides. #If it’s not fun, you’re doing something wrong.
Author Archives: Martien van Steenbergen
Joseph Perline’s 3 Questions
Joseph Perline’s 3 Questions: #When do you want to know you have a problem? #What are you prepared to throw away? #What does that mean?
Certified Scrum Master training for Informaat with Joseph Perline
Sprints are like a water tumbler
A sprint of one week is like a small bamboo water tumbler. Sprints of three weeks are larger, heavier and tumble a three times slower than the one week tumbler. Your organization is like a web of bamboo water tumblers. Make sure they tumble with a synchronous or syncopic rhythm. Rhythm creates momentum, momentum synchronizes …
You may think I am crazy
You may think I am crazy, but you’re not the only one.
Do you have four volt, two watt bulbs?
C = Client. S = Sales Person. C: Do you have four volt, two watt bulbs? S: Four what? C: No two. S: Two what? C: Yes. S: No. C: *!%#$^!
Parachute Game
We started the morning with a parachute game. Start at ground level, hold it over your head and do three steps forward. Next, sit on it. There it is, a parachute mushroom.
Writer’s Workshop
ScrumPLoP Writer’s Workshop. A very sketchy note of: *[http://hillside.net/component/content/article/65-how-to-run-plop/235-how-to-hold-a-writers-workshop Hillside Group » How to Hold a Writer’s Workshop]; and *[http://mummola.cs.tut.fi/~patterns/writers_workshop_cheatsheet.pdf Writer’s Workshop Cheat Sheet] (PDF). Just let me know if you would like a sketch that’s a bit more polished, and I’ll draw one up.
ScrumPLoP Sunset
First day. Saturday, April 30. Queens Day in The Netherlands. Spotless blue sky. Arrived an hour late due to the diesel train to Tisvildeleje waiting for an hour on Hillerød station. Anyway, the trip was wonderful, as was nature. Warm reception when I finally arrived at Helenekilde Badehotel, almost at the end of the world. …
Ready Equals Done
Scrum has much ado about Definition of Ready and Definition of Done. The Definition of Ready for the current phase equals the Definition of Done for the previous. Likewise, the Definition of Done for the current phase equals the Definition of Ready for the next. They are the two sides of the same membrane. So, …