You juggle your laptop bag, morning coffee and bagel as you walk into the office.  You are a Certified ScrumMaster at Jackson Industries, a privately-held company based in southern Minnesota.  You have been with the Company for over eight years and have served a number of teams as a ScrumMaster since your group transitioned to Scrum three years ago.

Are you resistant to change?  One of the reasons people attend Collaborative Leadership Team’s courses is to learn a different way of working.  Many, however, spend the duration of the course trying to figure out how to make Agile and Scrum into exactly what they are doing currently.  Angela Johnson, Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach shares information she recently learned about why change is so hard.

I had a great conversation with Rick Waters on the subject of modifications to Scrum that make us cringe.  Sprint 0 and Story Authors topped the list.

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I was walking to my clients’ office in downtown Minneapolis, when I spotted the man in the corner office. He looked smug in his three piece suit, staring down at us civilians on the street. The man in the corner office was literally on ‘top of the world’. Okay, maybe not the world, but the top of Minneapolis.

With 700+ attending, many great ideas and success stories were shared.  Some same old Scrum and Agile dysfunctions were also shared.  Angela Johnson, Certified Scrum Trainer was concerned by the number of people calling themselves trainers and coaches who continue to perpetuate “bad Scrum” using constructs that do not exist in the framework.