Index

A

• action items
  • prioritizing / Prioritize and assign action items
  • assigning / Prioritize and assign action items
• actual velocity / Team velocity chart
• Adkins, Lyssa
  • URL / Recommended reading
• agenda / Scratchpad, script, and agenda
• Agile
  • about / Will Agile cause a ripple, or a tsunami?
• Agile, culture change
  • multi-faceted approach, need for / Culture change requires a multi-faceted approach
  • need for / Illustrating the need for and direction of change
  • pre-agility survey / Pre-agility survey
  • waste score / Waste score
  • roles matrix / The Agile organization chart and roles matrix
  • Agile organization chart / The Agile organization chart and roles matrix
  • Agile organization, traditional roles / Traditional roles in an Agile organization
  • Agile mind-set, scaling / Scaling an Agile mind-set
• Agile Acceptance / Prepare for change aches and pains
• Agile Manifesto
  • about / A leaner Agile Manifesto
• Agile method
  • about / A brief history
• Agile organization
  • Scrum values / How does your organization measure up to the Scrum values?, What if the Scrum values score is low?
  • traditional roles / Traditional roles in an Agile organization
  • shaping / Chapter 9: Shaping the Agile Organization
• Agile organization chart / The Agile organization chart and roles matrix
• agreeableness, five big factors / Factor 4 – Agreeableness
• Alhazen
  • URL / A brief history
• anyone task / Anyone tasks, expert tasks, and pairing
• appreciations / Choose to be happy, focus on the positive
• Atari / Complex adaptive systems
• ATDD / What blocks me from being able to do my work?

B

• barstool
  • about / The empirical process control barstool
• big scrum
  • about / When Scrum gets big—dysfunction or constraint?
• Bossy Betty / Bossy Betty
• broadcasts / Getting the message
• Brooks, Fred / Recommended reading
• Bruce M. Tharp
  • URL / A corporate culture and its impact on teamwork
• Bruce Tuckmans model
  • URL / Recommended reading

C

• calendars / It helps to see time
• capacity planning worksheet / Understanding capacity
• Carl / Clammed Up Carl
• Carolyn Snyder
  • website, URL / Recommended reading
• commitment, Scrum values
  • about / Scrum value #2 – Commitment
  • Expert-to-Task (ETT model) / Expert-to-Task or ETT model of human resource allocation
  • Team-to-Backlog (TTB model) / Team-to-Backlog or the TTB model of human team allocation
  • issues / What do we do about commitment issues?
• communication
  • about / Getting the message
  • Face-to-face / Getting the message
  • broadcasts / Getting the message
  • reports / Getting the message
• conscientiousness, five big factors / Factor 2 – Conscientiousness
• continuous flow frameworks
  • sprint reviews for / Sprint reviews for continuous flow frameworks
• corporate culture
  • about / A corporate culture and its impact on teamwork
  • team, assumptions about management / Team assumptions about management
  • empowerment, fear / Fear of empowerment
• courage, Scrum values
  • about / Scrum value #1 – Courage
• creative culture
  • about / The creative culture
• customer collaboration
  • via prioritized product backlog / Customer collaboration via prioritized product backlog

D

• daily scrum
  • meeting / Daily scrum meeting, The misunderstood daily scrum meeting
  • meeting, questions / Three questions, What did I do since yesterday's meeting?, What blocks me from being able to do my work?, Do we have to meet every day?
  • meeting, permission for attending / Who's allowed to attend the daily scrum?
  / Through the Scrum microscope
• done
  • defining / Definition of Done, Definition of Done

E

• epics / Help the product owner prepare for sprint planning
• Estimatable / High-octane stories
• estimated velocity / Team velocity chart
• Evan Robinson
  • URL / Understanding capacity
• everyday leadership
  • about / Everyday leadership
• Expert-to-Task (ETT model) / Expert-to-Task or ETT model of human resource allocation
• expert tasks / Anyone tasks, expert tasks, and pairing
• extroversion, five big factors / Factor 3 – Extroversion, are you an innie or an outie?

F

• Face-to-face / Getting the message
• five big factors
  • openness / Factor 1 – Openness
  • conscientiousness / Factor 2 – Conscientiousness
  • extroversion / Factor 3 – Extroversion, are you an innie or an outie?
  • agreeableness / Factor 4 – Agreeableness
  • neuroticism / Factor 5 – Neuroticism
• Five Factor Model (FFM) / Individual influences to the work of the sprint
• five personality test
  • URL / Factor 5 – Neuroticism
• focus, Scrum values
  • about / Scrum value #4 – Focus, Lack of focus and personal control = missed commitments
• foie gras / Challenge 1: Fearful ScrumMasters
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) / Dysfunctions or true constraints?

G

• Gantt chart
  • in agile project / A Gantt chart in an Agile project
• Gut method / Agenda

H

• Henrik Kniberg
  • URL / Challenge 2: Late integration

I

• IKIWISI (I know it when I see it) / Possible outcomes of a sprint review
• impediments backlog (IBL) / Chapter 4: Sprint! Valuable, Collaborative, and Meaningful Work
• Independent / High-octane stories
• INTJ / First, what kind of personality do you have?
• Intrapreneur's Ten Commandments
  • about / The CEO of Me
• intrapreneurs / Redefining the role of the organization
• INVEST
  • about / Agenda, High-octane stories

J

• Jeff Anderson's post
  • URL / Waste score
• Jeff Sutherland
  • blog, URL / Frequent, multi-perspective feedback
• Jeff Sutherland's Scrum Handbook
  • URL / Recommended reading

K

• Kanban
  • URL / Recommended reading
• Kanban board
  • about / Estimating work
• KSSSHK (Ken Schwaber Scrum School of Hard Knocks) / Challenge 1: Fearful ScrumMasters

L

• Ladas, Corey
  • URL / Recommended reading
• large Scrum
  • about / More tips for large Scrums
• leader
  • portrait / Portrait of a leader
  • features / Selfless, confident, and accountable
  • feedback, receiving / Open to feedback
  • trust, building / Builds trust
  • Theory X / Leads with Theory Y
  • Theory Y / Leads with Theory Y
  • honesty, with team / Honest
• leadership frameworks
  • URL / Recommended reading
• LEAN meeting / Prior to the sprint review
• Legacy Scrum
  • about / Sprint planning basics
• lines of code (LOC) / Challenge 4: Big picture metrics

M

• Martin Fowler
  • URL / Challenge 9: Distributed teams
• Myers-Briggs
  • URL / Recommended reading

N

• Negotiable / High-octane stories
• neuroticism, five big factors / Factor 5 – Neuroticism
• New Product Blog item / Prioritization can be useful for other things
• Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Complex adaptive systems
• norming phase / What's 'Norm'al for one team is not for another

O

• Objectives and Key Results (OKR) / Person has a say in it
• obstacle
  • removal / Waste and obstacle removal
• Officer Sophie / Officer Sophie
• openness, five big factors / Factor 1 – Openness
• openness, Scrum values
  • about / Scrum value #3 – Openness, Secrecy and what to do about it, Openness exposes truth about capacity and demand, Openness exposes a need for slowing down in order to eventually speed up
• organization
  • role, defining / Redefining the role of the organization
  • teams, self managing / Self-managing teams – the inmates run the asylum!
  • career paths / Career paths
  • true visibility / True visibility
  • capacity / Capacity, not projects
  • innovations, space for / How modern organizations make space for innovation

P

• personality
  • traits / First, what kind of personality do you have?
  • self-awareness / Learn to look into your reflection
• physical
  • taskboards / When physical taskboards and conversations aren't enough
• physical space / Physical space
• Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) / A brief history
• planned velocity / Team velocity chart
• Prezi
  • URL / Give a visual
• product
  • inspecting / Sprint review – inspecting and adapting the product
  • adapting / Sprint review – inspecting and adapting the product
  • reviews / Regular product reviews or demos
  • demos / Regular product reviews or demos
• product backlog / The product backlog
  • about / Start at the beginning – product backlog
  • on user / Focus product backlogs on users and values
  • on value / Focus product backlogs on users and values
  • team, early engagement / Engage the team early
  • project portfolio backlog, example / Prioritization can be useful for other things
• product backlog items (PBIs) / Focus product backlogs on users and values
• product owner
  • about / Scrum roles, Product owner
  • contacting to / Help the product owner prepare for sprint planning
  • acceptance / Product owner acceptance
  • need for / Product owner acceptance
• project Grand Poobah
  • about / A real need for a project Grand Poobah
• project management office (PMO) / The Agile organization chart and roles matrix

R

• Real-Time Information / Chapter 6: The Criticality of Real-time Information
• REAL action items / Make REAL action items
• release planning / Release planning (optional)
  • about / Release planning – when will you set your features free?, Chapter 2: Release Planning – Tuning Product Development
  • and releases timing / Timing of releases and release planning
  • buffers, making visible / Make buffers visible
  • event, conducting / How to conduct a release planning event?, Do your homework!
  • meeting, facilitating / Facilitating the release planning meeting
  • participants / Participants
  • agenda / Agenda
  • Gut method / Agenda
  • Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimatable, Small, and Testable (INVEST) / Agenda
  • physical space / The physical space
  • output / Release planning output
  • summary / Release planning summary
• reports / Getting the message
  • creating / Create and distribute reports
  • distributing / Create and distribute reports
• research and development
  • about / The creative culture
• respect, Scrum values
  • about / Scrum value #5 – Respect, Power, position, and control and what to do about it
• retrospective
  • techniques / Some different retrospective techniques
  • future, visualizing / Visualize the future
  • team cave art / Team cave art
  • yoga/meditation / Retrospective yoga/meditation
  • and review / Why should we care about reviews and retrospectives?
• Rework Bin / Challenge 2: Late integration
• roles matrix / The Agile organization chart and roles matrix

S

• scenery
  • changing / Change the scenery
• scratchpad / Scratchpad, script, and agenda
• script / Scratchpad, script, and agenda
• Scrum
  • about / The underlying concepts of Scrum, Sprint planning basics, Chapter 1: Scrum – A Brief Review of the Basics (and a Few Interesting Tidbits)
  • core values / Scrum core values
  • roles / Scrum roles
  • team / Scrum team, Small Scrum, Big programs, small Scrum
  • product owner / Product owner
  • artifacts / Scrum artifacts
  • elements, checklist / Is your team ready for Scrum?
  • team, working / How the Scrum team should work
  • microscope / Through the Scrum microscope
  • values / The five core values of Scrum, Chapter 7: Scrum Values Expose Fear, Dysfunction, and Waste
  • values, of organization / How does your organization measure up to the Scrum values?
  • values, low scoring / What if the Scrum values score is low?
  • avoiding / Avoiding Scrum as a panacea
  • challenges / When Scrum gets big—dysfunction or constraint?, Challenge 2: Late integration, Challenge 3: Communication across multiple teams, Challenge 4: Big picture metrics, Employee morale, Challenge 5: Not done – the root of all evil, Challenge 6: Too few product owners, Challenge 7: Scaling too much, too fast, Challenge 8: Wrong team structure, Challenge 9: Distributed teams
  • small / Chapter 10: Scrum – Large and Small
  • large / Chapter 10: Scrum – Large and Small
• SCRUM
  • about / SCRUM is not an acronym for Serious Crud Required by Upper Management
• Scrum, roles
  • Scrum team / Scrum roles
  • product owner / Scrum roles
  • ScrumMaster / Scrum roles
• Scrum, values
  • about / The five core values of Scrum
  • courage / Scrum value #1 – Courage
  • commitment / Scrum value #2 – Commitment
  • openness / Scrum value #3 – Openness, Secrecy and what to do about it, Openness exposes truth about capacity and demand, Openness exposes a need for slowing down in order to eventually speed up
  • focus / Scrum value #4 – Focus
  • respect / Scrum value #5 – Respect, Power, position, and control and what to do about it
• Scrum-ban write-up
  • URL / Recommended reading
• Scrum artifacts
  • product backlog / The product backlog
  • sprint backlog and burn down / The sprint backlog, Sprint burndown
• Scrumban system / Big programs, small Scrum
• Scrum framework
  • about / Brief review of the Scrum framework
  • sprint backlog / Sprint planning
  • daily scrum, meeting / Daily scrum meeting
  • sprint review, meeting / Sprint review meeting
  • sprint, retrospective / Sprint retrospective
  • release planning / Release planning (optional)
• ScrumMaster
  • about / ScrumMaster, Sprint planning basics, Employees feel like headcount
  • features / How to become a better ScrumMaster
  • empowerment / Empower yourself and others!
  • desired state, visualizing / Help others visualize the desired state
  • influencing others / Influence others
  • role / The ScrumMaster's role
  • core knowledge / Core knowledge
  • responsibilities / Responsibilities
  • sprint, running / Running the sprint
  • product owner, assisting / Assisting the product owner
  • high-performing scrum team, creating / Creating a high-performing Scrum team
  • progress visibility, creating / Making progress visible
  • core values, supporting / Supporting and living the Scrum core values
  • educating others / Educating others
  • personal skills and characteristics, improving / Improving personal skills and characteristics
• ScrumMaster, characteristics
  • about / Other ScrumMaster characteristics
  • procrastinator or proactive / Procrastinator or proactive
  • teacher / Teacher
  • student / Student
  • scrum buddy / Scrum buddy
  • journal/walk up a hill / Journal/walk up a hill
• ScrumMaster, communication style
  • loud or quiet / Loud or quiet?
  • direct versus passive / Direct versus passive
  • Switzerland or Supreme Court judge / Switzerland or Supreme Court judge
• ScrumMaster, Persona
  • Techie Taj / Techie Taj
  • Bossy Betty / Bossy Betty
  • Carl / Clammed Up Carl
  • Thundering Thea / Thundering Thea
  • Officer Sophie / Officer Sophie
• ScrumMasters
  • about / We are all ScrumMasters
• Scrum microscope
  • about / Through the Scrum microscope
  • Level 1x magnification / 1x magnification – product vision/initiatives
  • Level 2x magnification / 2x magnification – the product roadmap
  • Level 4x magnification / 4x magnification – the release plan
  • Level 8x magnification / 8x magnification – the product backlog
  • Level 16x magnification / 16x magnification – the sprint
  • Level 32x magnification / 32x magnification – tasks, daily scrums, and other information
  • Level 64x magnification / 64x magnification – read all about it, in the team room!
  • summary / Scrum microscope summary
• Scrum team / Scrum roles
• Scrum village / It takes a village – communicating during the sprint
• Scrum website
  • URL / Complex adaptive systems
• self-actualizing
  • about / Self-actualizing individuals create an Agile organization
  • common traits, by Maslow / Self-actualizing individuals create an Agile organization
  • motivating / Goals and metrics that motivate self-actualizing
  • motivating, reasons finding / Understanding what demotivates
  • measurements, standardizing / Standardizing measurements
  • multi-perspective feedback / Frequent, multi-perspective feedback
  • CEO scorecard / CEO scorecard
• Small / High-octane stories
• small scrum
  • about / Small Scrum, Big programs, small Scrum
• sprint
  • retrospective / Sprint retrospective, Sprint retrospective – inspecting and adapting processes and teamwork
  • definiton of done / Part I – the What and the Why
  • working in / Working in a sprint
  • about / Beware of the old mind-set creeping into the new paradigm
  • product backlog item / Look ahead at the next sprint's product backlog items
  • goals / Sprint goals
  • reviews / Sprint reviews
  • backlogs / Sprint backlogs
  • burndown chart / Sprint burndown chart
• sprint backlog / Sprint planning
• sprint buffering / Sprint buffering
• sprint events / Recall sprint events
• sprint planning
  • about / Sprint planning basics, Chapter 3: Sprint Planning – Fine-tune the Sprint Commitment
  • meetings / Sprint planning basics
  • preparing for / Preparing for sprint planning
  • sample checklist / Sample sprint planning checklist
  • improving / Improving sprint planning
• sprint planning meeting
  • High-octane stories / High-octane stories
  • product owner, preparing for / Help the product owner prepare for sprint planning
  • physical space / Physical space
  • visualizing / Visualize the meeting
  • scratchpad / Scratchpad, script, and agenda
  • script / Scratchpad, script, and agenda
  • agenda / Scratchpad, script, and agenda
• sprint planning meeting, running
  • about / Running the sprint planning meeting
  • What and Why / Part I – the What and the Why
  • stories, types / Different types of stories
  • How / Part II – the How
  • capacity planning worksheet / Understanding capacity
  • sprint tasks, identifying / Talk first, then identify sprint tasks
  • expert tasks / Anyone tasks, expert tasks, and pairing
  • anyone task / Anyone tasks, expert tasks, and pairing
  • sprint buffering / Sprint buffering
  • calendars / It helps to see time
  • team members interaction / Team members should talk with each other
  • committing / Commit!
• sprint retrospective / Sprint retrospective
• sprint review
  • meeting / Sprint review meeting
  • prior to / Prior to the sprint review
  • about / During the sprint review
  • context, setting / Set the context
  • visual, giving / Give a visual
  • stories, keeping straight / Keep your stories straight
  • outcomes / Possible outcomes of a sprint review
  • for continuous flow frameworks / Sprint reviews for continuous flow frameworks
  • time for collaboration and trust / Sprint review – a time for collaboration and trust
• Stacey Matrix / Complex adaptive systems
• Stacia Viscardi's Scrum website
  • URL / Recommended reading
• stakeholders
  • about / Invite stakeholders to sprint reviews
• state of evolution / Prepare for change aches and pains

T

• Team-to-Backlog (TTB model) / Team-to-Backlog or the TTB model of human team allocation
• Techie Taj / Techie Taj
• Testable / High-octane stories
• Theory X / Leads with Theory Y
• Theory Y / Leads with Theory Y
• thimblerig
  • about / Scrum stops the resource shell game
• Thundering Thea / Thundering Thea
• Time to Market (TTM) / Challenge 4: Big picture metrics
• Toyota Production System (TPS)
  • about / Agile DNA

U

• user stories / Help the product owner prepare for sprint planning
• UXPins
  • URL / Engage the team early

V

• Valuable / High-octane stories
• vanity and ego
  • differences, URL / Recommended reading
• VARK / The misunderstood daily scrum meeting
• velocity / Team velocity chart
• VPN / What blocks me from being able to do my work?

W

• waste
  • removal / Waste and obstacle removal
• waterfall model
  • about / Beware of the old mind-set creeping into the new paradigm
• Weight Watchers
  • about / Sprint planning basics
• work
  • estimating / Estimating work
• work breakdown structures (WBS) / Bossy Betty

X

• 1x magnification
  • about / 1x magnification – product vision/initiatives
• 2x magnification
  • about / 2x magnification – the product roadmap
• 4x magnification
  • about / 4x magnification – the release plan
  • burndown baseline / Release the burndown baseline
  • baseline, with updates / Baseline with updates
  • team velocity chart / Team velocity chart
  • Gantt chart, in agile project / A Gantt chart in an Agile project
• 8x magnification
  • about / 8x magnification – the product backlog
  • user, requisites / What does your user want?
• 16x magnification
  • about / 16x magnification – the sprint
  • user stories, in sprint planning / User stories in sprint planning
  • acceptance criteria / Acceptance criteria
• 32x magnification
  • about / 32x magnification – tasks, daily scrums, and other information
  • daily broadcasts / Daily broadcasts
  • daily scrums / Daily scrums
  • sprint backlogs / Sprint backlogs
  • sprint burndown chart / Sprint burndown chart
  • burns / What burns down can also burn up
• 64x magnification
  • about / 64x magnification – read all about it, in the team room!
• Xavier Quesada Allue's Visual Management Blog
  • URL / Recommended reading