Browse 62 quotes about Scrum.
“If you focus on the strength of the team, you will begin to find work as a positive challenge.”
“Synonyms for Scrum Ceremonies are what, when, who, how, why.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Brainstorming is to aim for alternatives.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Brainstorming is not about HOW; but How-To-Wow.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Tougher the project; Agiler the approach.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Agile; a little fragile; handle with care.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Potentially shippable is defined by a state of confidence or readiness, and shipping is a business decision.”
Source: Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
“No Rick, your Gantt chart is not working, and it never has!”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Agile has become the salt and pepper for the world of projects.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Being Agile; piece by piece, step by step.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“To keep growing; keep evolving.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Scrum refers to; orderly crowd or disorganized team.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“If you don’t collect any metrics, you’re flying blind. If you collect and focus on too many, they may be obstructing your field of view.”
Source: Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
“Strong executive commitment is a success factor for implementing Scrum, and management can best demonstrate their support of the transformation through their actions.”
Source: Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
“Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive. Traditional development and delivery frameworks such as waterfall are often ineffective. In contrast, Scrum is a value-driven agile approach which incorporates adjustments based on regular and repeated customer and stakeholder feedback. And Scrum’s built-in rapid response to change leads to substantial benefits such as fast time-to-market, higher satisfaction, and continuous improvement—which supports innovation and drives competitive advantage.”
Source: Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
“The MVP has just those features considered sufficient for it to be of value to customers and allow for it to be shipped or sold to early adopters. Customer feedback will inform future development of the product.”
Source: Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
“By adopting an agile mindset and providing improved engagement, collaboration, transparency, and adaptability via Scrum's values, roles, events, and artifacts, the results were excellent.”
Source: Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
“Deploy or die.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“If releasing is hard, people will always find a reason not to release.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Pioneers take all the arrows.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Team performance is directly proportional to team stability. Focus on building and maintaining a stable team. Stability reduces friction and increases credibility and confidence.”
“Agile coach: The individual is an agile expert who provides guidance for new agile implementations as well as existing agile teams. The agile coach is experienced in employing agile techniques in different environments and has successfully run diverse agile projects. The individual builds and maintains relationships with everyone involved, coaches individuals, trains groups, and facilitates interactive workshops. The agile coach is typically from outside the organization, and the role may be temporary or permanent.”
Source: Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
“Thriving in today’s marketplace frequently depends on making a transformation to become more agile.”
Source: Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
“Frame your problem statements into actionable tasks and goals that lead to a solution. Problem statements incite procrastination and resistance whereas solution statements inspire hope and motivation.”
“The goal of going Agile is to hedge risk by doing incremental-iterative development, increasing overall process efficiency, and the quality of the final output.”
“If you can't scale, you can't scrum.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“There seems almost a shared society-wide delusion at play where we all accept that wasted effort is just a fact of life.
And that is fine.
Or rather, it would be fine if we had already conquered hunger in the world.
Or if half of the world’s children would not live in poverty.
Or had we become a multi-planetary species, protecting us from a planetary catastrophe.
But we have not.
Quite the opposite, our species is actually threatened from several quarters, yet we insist on having some of our best people waste their lives LARPing instead of contributing.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Just because architecture is supposed to be stable, it does not mean that it should never change.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Complexity is death.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“It is not the physical distance that matters that much, it is the lack of Einheit.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Scrum does not tell you what to do; it helps to show what is going on. An intentionally incomplete framework like Scrum can never answer all your problems. How you enrich Scrum and make it your own is what matters. As you master Scrum, all the talk about Scrum should move to the background.”
Source: Driving Value with Sprint Goals: Humble Plans, Exceptional Results (Addison-Wesley Signature Series
“The Agile project manager plays a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of projects using Agile methodologies. They act as facilitators, coaches, and leaders, guiding the team through the iterative development process.
Here are some key responsibilities of an Agile project manager:
Orchestrating the project's lifecycle: This involves planning and breakdown of work into sprints, facilitating ceremonies like daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, and ensuring the project progresses smoothly towards its goals.
Promoting collaboration and communication: Agile thrives on open communication and collaboration. The project manager fosters an environment where team members feel comfortable sharing ideas, concerns, and updates. They actively remove roadblocks and ensure everyone is aligned with the project vision and goals.
Empowering the team: Agile teams are self-organizing and empowered to make decisions. The project manager provides guidance and support but avoids micromanaging. They trust the team's expertise and encourage them to take ownership of their work.
Stakeholder management: The project manager acts as a bridge between the development team and stakeholders, including clients, sponsors, and other interested parties. They keep stakeholders informed of project progress, manage expectations, and address their concerns.
Continuous improvement: Agile is an iterative process that emphasizes continuous improvement. The project manager actively seeks feedback from team members and stakeholders, analyzes project data, and identifies areas for improvement. They implement changes to the process and tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Overall, the Agile project manager plays a vital role in driving successful project delivery through Agile methodologies. They wear multiple hats, acting as facilitators, coaches, leaders, and problem-solvers, ensuring the team has the resources, support, and environment they need to thrive.”
“Changing practices is one thing; changing minds is quite another”
“Summary of Scrum vs Kanban
Similarities:
- Both are Lean and Agile
- Both use pull scheduling
- Both limit WIP
- Both use transperency to drive process improvement
- Both focus on delivering releasable software and often
- Both are based on self-organizing teams
- Both require breaking the work into pieces.
- In both, the release plan is continuously optimized based on empirical data (velocity/lead time)”
“Differences:
Scrum:
- Timeboxed iterations prescribed.
Kanban:
- Timeboxed iterations optional. Can have separate cadences for planning, release, and process improvement. Can be event - driven instead of timeboxed.”
Source: Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both
“To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible.”
Source: Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly
“We need to uncover better ways to improve and retrospectives can provide the solution.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“Getting feasible actions out of a retrospective and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“The goal of retrospectives is help teams to continuously improve their way of working.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“Agile retrospectives give the power to the team, where it belongs!”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“With agile retrospectives the team drives their own actions!”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“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