Author: Riccardo Mariti

Riccardo Mariti is a visionary entrepreneur, real estate expert, and negotiation and mediation specialist. Renowned for creating the world's first Agile restaurant, Riccardo has over 30 years of experience pioneering innovative approaches to business transformation across hospitality, real estate, agriculture and banking. His expertise in negotiation and conflict resolution has helped organizations unlock their potential, blending creativity, adaptability, and operational excellence to achieve remarkable results.

What is Scrum?

Here is a great interview with Jeff Sutherland by the BBC Academy (under 5  mins) See the original Article here

Jeff Sutherland, Co-founder of Scrum

Great book on Scrum and the history of Scrum (Amazon Link)

The latest Scrum Guide pdf download  2017-Scrum-Guide-US

Agile Manifesto

Manifesto for Agile Software Development – Agile was born out of Scrum (see https://agilemanifesto.org/)

We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.

Continue reading “What is Scrum?”

This is How We Run Our Daily Scrum Meetings

First, we let everyone know that we are about to hold the meeting.
Second, we play this video

This is the world record Formula One pitstop, which is four wheels changed and a refuel, all done in UNDER TWO SECONDS!

While it’s playing, I ask, “How can we become more like this?”, “Where is the manager here?”, “Do you see anyone telling someone what to do?”, “Do you think they just turned up today and figured this out? Or do you think they might have practised?”

We have a discussion for a couple of minutes and see if we can come up with a small improvement that we can try during the next shift today as a little experiment.

At the end of the shift we have a very quick retrospective and if the improvements worked we find a way to share it with the rest of the Team.

This is normally done in one of two ways, either a quick note on the group WhatsApp page, or one team member will be instructed to write it up and make sure that each team member is informed/trained/educated. (For this we use our accountability document. Here’s our latest version. Everything starts in red, and as a drop-down which turns the field green when somebody has had the information/training/education.)

We then go through the daily checklist as usual.

Please let me know if you have any questions.