“Rituals bring people together, allowing them to focus on what is important and to acknowledge significant events or accomplishments.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“Without a good facilitator, a retrospective most likely will be a disaster.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“Before starting a retrospective, you need to think about which exercises would be most suitable.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“A ScrumMaster who takes teams beyond getting agile practices up and running into their deliberate and joyful pursuit of high performance is an agile coach.”
“The Scrum idea of a separated Scrum Master is good for Scrum, but not appropriate for most projects. Good development requires not just talkers but doers.”
“Would you fancy a shag?”
“Is that like a scrum?”
“It could be.”
Source: Necessary Errors
“Most literature on the subject of agile methodology... is written from the viewpoint of software developers and programmers, and tends to place its main emphasis on programming techniques and agile project management—testing is usually only mentioned in the guise of unit testing and its associated tools. ...However, unit tests alone are not sufficient and broader-based testing is critical to the success of agile development processes.”
Source: Testing in Scrum: A Guide for Software Quality Assurance in the Agile World
“Scrum дает нужную гибкость, чтобы быстро реагировать на меняющиеся условия рынка и давление со стороны конкурентов или внедрять новые идеи наших команд.”
Source: Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products That Customers Love
“Слово scrum («схватка») взято из регби и обозначает метод командной игры, позволяющий завладеть мячом и вести его дальше по полю, а для этого нужны слаженность, единство намерений и четкое понимание цели.”
Source: Scrum. Революционный метод управления проектами
“Шартрский собор строился пятьдесят семь лет. Готов поспорить, что перед началом строительства каменщики, глядя в глаза епископу, утверждали: «Двадцать лет — самое долгое. Может, и за пятнадцать справимся».”
Source: Scrum. Революционный метод управления проектами