by Scott Downey | May 31, 2017 | Blog, Scrum, Sprints |
In over 20 years of Agile practice and Coaching, I see patterns everywhere I go. We spend so much time feeling unique that we fail to see how very much we have in common with everyone else. Similarly, the reasons organizations have lackluster performance varies… by Scott Downey | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Scrum |
I recently had an engineer ask me, “Why does Scrum make me work so slowly? I felt like I was getting a lot more done before we started using Scrum.” It’s a fairly common question, so I thought I’d post the answer I gave him and a few details… by portalintegrators | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Sprints |
In every new task that we will do, we often focus on the “real deal” rather than “the process” on getting the real deal. We assume that we can easily handle the situation with full knowledge or commitment. The real thing, however, is we can’t. We have a habit to… by Scott Downey | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Scrum |
Whenever I’m coaching a new team toward Scrum adoption, probably the most common objection I hear goes like this: “Yeah, well… Scrum is fine for you. But my (team/project/company/product) is really incredibly special and completely unique in the world. An… by Scott Downey | Apr 10, 2016 | Blog, Scrum |
My name is Scott Downey and I have been in the software industry for over twenty-five years now and have served at all organizational levels. I started out as a database and Unix System administrator then moved into software engineering (associate through senior…