Articles in Category: Scrum by Mike Cohn

• Advice on Conducting the Scrum of Scrums Meeting

  by Mike Cohn | May 2007 | Scrum Alliance Website

  Tags: agile scrum
  
  

• Leader of the Band: Six Attributes of the Good ScrumMaster

  by Mike Cohn | February 2007 | Scrum Alliance Website

  Tags: scrum ScrumMaster
  A discussion of six attributes that the ideal ScrumMaster should possess.
  

• ScrumMaster: Appointed or Team-Selected?

  by Mike Cohn | October 2006 | Scrum Alliance Website

  Tags: scrum ScrumMaster
  The selection of a new Scrum team’s ScrumMaster can impact the success or failure of the team's Scrum adoption. Choose the wrong person and the team could face the uphill struggle of trying to become self-organizing while under the thumb of a command-and-control style manager. Choose the right person—matching the skills of the new ScrumMaster with the initial needs of the team—and the team will have an incredible headstart in adopting Scrum.
  

• Sprint Planning: Better Together

  by Mike Cohn | July 2006 | Scrum Alliance Website

  Tags: planning scrum
  Many teams try to divide and conquer when it comes to sprint planning, often with disjointed and disappointing results. This article explores why planning, like so many other agile practices, should truly be a team sport.
  

• Scrum Shouldn't Be a Burden

  by Mike Cohn | March 2006 | Scrum Alliance Website

  Tags: scrum transitioning
  Scrum was designed to be lightweight, so if your team is complaining that it's too heavy, you need to do some digging to find out what's weighing them down. This article defines some factors that could be adding to their load.
  

• Toward a Catalog of Scrum Smells

  by Mike Cohn | October 2003 | Scrum Alliance

  Tags: scrum
  This article was written for the Scrum Alliance soapbox. It presents an initial collection of Scrum smells or indicators that things may be amiss on a Scrum project.
  

• The Upside of Downsizing: Using Scrum and User Stories to Scale Down a Project

  by Mike Cohn | January 2003 | STQE

  Tags: management scrum user stories
  This article describes how a project was successfully downsized from 100 to 12 developers. To make such a dramatic adjustment the development process was switched to Scrum and user stories.
  

• The Need for Agile Project Management

  by Mike Cohn and Ken Schwaber | January 2003 | Agile Times Newsletter

  Tags: agile management scrum ScrumMaster
  Ken Schwaber and I co-wrote this article to help counter the misperception that agile projects do not need project management. The article outlines some of the responsibilities of the agile project manager.
  

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