Scrum Master Lord of the Universe

Diana Mouter's ignite talk "How I Became Scrum Master Lord of the Universe" is entertaining and reflects my experience becoming enamored with Scrum (and I never even took the two-day course). 

In my case, I studied up and then tried scrum with an ongoing project.  In theory - perfect.  In practice - difficult with outstanding results!  Most important for me was my journey from PM to Scrum Master.  They are different roles and my PM kept wanting to show up and dominate the daily Scrum.  My team was really cool about this and helped me make the transition.

About Ignite Talks:  Ignite talks rock!  The format is 5 minutes and 20 slides with the slides auto-advancing every 15 seconds.  More at igniteshow.com

Awesome Agile Resource - IllustratedAgile.com

I took in a webinar hosted by VersionOne during my lunch hour on Wednesday, and was introduced to an awesome agile resource.  IllustratedAgile.com is a site by Len Lagestee who is the Manager of Project Management and Methodology for Cars.com.  The site hosts a blog on Agile Leadership, a series about the scrum master role, and awesome sketches like the one linked below.

http://illustratedagile.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/agile-organization.jpg

Check it out!  Warning - this may soak up a few hours :)

IllustratedAgile.com is a definite addition to our agile resources list.  Note that this is now hosted as a separate page at [add link].

A great Scrum analogy - M*A*S*H

I wanted to bring your attention to a great analogy describing the difference between a project manager and a scrum master.  From the VersionOne blog:

http://blogs.versionone.com/agile_management/2012/01/13/everything-i-learned-about-scrum-teams-i-learned-from-mash/

So, Henry Blake is the PM, and Radar is the SM.  Yep, from my experience to date - that is right on the money.

This is a Scrum Master!