http://www.inspectandadapt.com/ I&A Description http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog/the-long-and-painful-road-part-2-of-2 I am a cumbersome organisation There I said it. Apparently the first step in dealing with a problem is admitting you have a problem. I have kind of known this for a while but not really done much about it. Before now I have been able to function fairly we... http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog/the-long-and-painful-road-part-1-of-2 I am an unfit individual There I said it. Apparently the first step in dealing with a problem is admitting you have a problem. I have kind of known this for a while but not really done much about it. Before now I have been able to function fairly well and... http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog/are-you-an-adaptive-scrummaster As a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) I do a lot of work with ScrumMasters in organisations who are looking to find new ways to engage their teams and move their Scrum implementations forward past the basic Scrum framework. When Coaching ScrumMasters I recomme... http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog/the-angelina-jolie-blog-post I think one of the most glossed-over parts of Scrum in teams is the concept of a Sprint goal. My main concern with this is not that people aren't doing Scrum properly but that they are missing out on something that could give their teams, projects and pr... http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog/the-whole-scrum-vs-kanban-thing I'm pretty bad at twitter. I am terrible at getting my thoughts across as intended in 144 characters and the more I try sometimes the worse it gets. So I am writing this as a response to the twitter debate that ensued after Jim Coplien's latest post. My f... http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog/an-autumnal-father-son-scrumish-story So here's the situation; the leaves are turning beautiful shades of red, purple, brown and orange, you can hear them crunching under your feet as you take a walk. Yeah...Autumn is my LEAST favourite time of year! I HATE clearing up lea... http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog/the-one-where-someone-keeps-being-late Overview The Sonics were a team about half way through their first sprint and having their first experiences with Scrum. At the same time this was their first project together as a team and, as such, were just getting used to each other and establishing a... http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog/story-spines-an-exercise-in-emergence Gaining faith in emergence is a major part of agile: our designs, architectures, requirements and solutions emerge over the course of an agile project. Teams and teamwork also emerge over the course of time and this is often one of the most scary parts of... http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog/the-one-where-the-release-plan-was-unacceptable Overview Xander, the ScrumMaster for the Blockheads team, had just finished leading them through release planning of the highest priority section of Product Backlog for the OPAL project. The team was fairly new and had little concept of their velocity plu... http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog/the-one-with-five-teams Overview Karina, a RE-TRAINED project manager, had recently come back from her Certified ScrumMaster training which had been organised just before the STING project was due to commence. She was aware that Serena, her boss, was keen for this project to be ...