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Jun 13, 2020
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Great Remote Training!
Even though the training was delivered remotely due to C-19 restrictions, I found the teacher dedicated and professional. The hands-on exercises in team had been very helpful and interesting!
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Jan 14, 2020
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These courses are fundamental to understanding the Scrum framework. How they train you to ask yourself the right questions to make the best use of the Scrum rules.
Remember, Scrum is difficult to master.
Fabio is a good facilitator and trainer.
Jean-Christophe Poirier
Jun 24, 2019
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Thomas Van Steyvoort
May 19, 2019
Transparence - Inspect - Adapt !
Fabio is really experienced about project management and Scrum framework. It was really a pleasure and learning experience taking this PSM 2-day course.
Thanks !
Laurent Picq
Apr 8, 2019
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Clear. Enough concrete exercises to well understand the principles.
Vincent Blauwblomme
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Fabio started his career as a software engineer in 2001. He’s then started working as a project manager and, after few years of traditional project management, he discovered and embraced Scrum, a way of working that perfectly fits his mind-set. Fabio has founded CollectiveGenius in 2010, a service company that helps people and companies to deliver better products with Scrum. His international career has given to Fabio the chance to work with different cultures. He’s trilingual (Italian, French and English) and always open to new challenging opportunities! By the way, you can contact him if you like motorbikes as well ;-)
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Jun 13, 2020
Great Remote Training!
Great Remote Training!
Even though the training was delivered remotely due to C-19 restrictions, I found the teacher dedicated and professional. The hands-on exercises in team had been very helpful and interesting!
Pierluca
Jan 14, 2020
PSM1 Class by Scrum.org
These courses are fundamental to understanding the Scrum framework. How they train you to ask yourself the right questions to make the best use of the Scrum rules.
Remember, Scrum is difficult to master.
Fabio is a good facilitator and trainer.
Jean-Christophe Poirier
Jun 24, 2019
Good training
Good training, with a very good trainer.
Thomas Van Steyvoort
May 19, 2019
Transparence - Inspect - Adapt !
Fabio is really experienced about project management and Scrum framework. It was really a pleasure and learning experience taking this PSM 2-day course.
Thanks !
Laurent Picq
Apr 8, 2019
Clear
Clear. Enough concrete exercises to well understand the principles.
Vincent Blauwblomme
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Fabio Panzavolta
"Scrum and Organizational Design in practice" is my contribution to Gunther Verheyen book "97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know" published by O'Reilly Media and resumes my latest experience as Scrum Practitioner on how to make a company's transformation implicit rather than explicit.
A company that has been around for more than 30 years, with all of its organizational habits and practices, is a much too complex system to change if you look at the whole. We did feel the need of change towards increased agility, however. We did not feel the need, nor did we have the ambition, to try to change the whole system in one large ‘Agile transformation.’ Rather, we decided to make the transformation we aim at implicit. We selected one tangible product and introduced Scrum for its further development and evolution.
Our clear ambitions were two-fold; (1) satisfying the CEO’s objectives of improving Time to Market, Quality and Customer satisfaction for the selected product and (2) revealing what should be improved at organizational level.
After one year of experimentation and discovery, including improving the understanding of Scrum of all people connected to the Product with trainings and workshops, we have found that we have substantially improved the Development Team’s focus. Not only has this led to improved quality and speed, but it has also enhanced cross-learning within the team. An important hurdle we had to take for this was getting the organization to accept that the team works now dedicated on our selected product only.
With regards to our second ambition, we have revealed important organizational impediments to Scrum. We are working hard to raising them to and generating awareness with the Board Members. Collaboration between Business and Engineering is certainly an important improvement area. Product ownership is fragmented among too many people, affecting vision and direction. Management decisions can be slow. Employees are spread too thin limiting their capacity to perform and learn from deep experiments. This is caused and worsened by the compliancy pressure on employees; their ‘success’ is measured on how they respect of internal processes instead, rather than metrics like customer satisfaction.
Our many experimentations wouldn’t have been possible without all the people seeing the value of Scrum and relentlessly contributing in many ways to our company journey towards more agility. We know the journey will be long. We are gratified over every little improvement we make.
The support and help, often politically, of one of the board members has proven crucial however. It is extremely helpful to have a promotor on your side who knows the organization inside-out, is able to open doors for us and is willing to try different approaches to help remove Impediments. It has been one of the success factors that permitted to raise the bar of experimentation at different organizational levels.
I feel we are the living evidence that introducing Scrum is not possible without impacting the organization, although Scrum has no rules on how an organization should look like.
I am curious to find out what is happening in your organization:
What’s been the biggest impact of Scrum on your organization?
Is there something you’re doing today that could be improved with Scrum?
What do you think Scrum couldn’t help to achieve that you were expecting to?
If you want to explore further this book's chapter, I recently wrote a case study, published by scrum.org, "A world-leading company in secure communications uses Scrum to restore its competitive advantage" that dive deep into the experience and associated retrospectives.
Find more about me on www.collectivegenius.fr and www.collectivegenius.it
Jun 16, 2020
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Fabio Panzavolta
Are scrum and personal effectiveness compatible? In recent weeks I have experienced using Scrum for my personal organization.
Apr 22, 2020
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Fabio Panzavolta
Chacun d’entre nous à eu un déclic concernant Scrum, nous avons compris que c’était la route à emprunter, un comportement que nous souhaitions adopter, des valeurs alignées avec les nôtres.
Nous avons eu une étincelle qui a allumé en nous une passion, une envie de lire, étudier et pratiquer Scrum.
Quelle a été ton étincelle de Scrum ?
Telle est la question que nous posons aux invités, car j'aime entendre et apprendre de vos histoires et transmettre aux auditeurs pas un monde parfait, mais combien la réalité est imparfaite, complexe et dure.
Dans cet épisode nous rencontrons Olivier Ledru et Mohamed Gargouri, deux Scrum Masters expérimenté qui partagent leurs étincelles de Scrum.
Minute 2:13 – Quelle a été votre étincelles de Scrum ? (Le déclic qui vous a fait comprendre que c’était la voie à emprunter)
Minute 10:21 – Avez-vous un exemple de Scrum au travail (bon ou mauvais)
Minute 22:40 – Conseils de lecture :
Scrum a Pocket Guide – Gunther Verheyen
Fixing your Scrum – Ryan Ripley et Todd Miller
Scrum Book – Jeff Sutherland et James Coplien
Scrum Guide – Jeff Sutherland et Ken Schwaber
Scrum Insights for partitioners – Hiren Doshi
Mastering Professional Scrum – Stephanie Ockerman et Simon Reindl
Scrum Mastery, from good to great Servant Leadership – Geoff Watts
Je recherche d'autres histoires, contactez-moi si vous avez envie de les partager.
Apr 14, 2020
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Fabio Panzavolta
Often, when I facilitate a Professional Scrum Training, I'm asked about how a Scrum Team can work without someone telling them what to do.
Jan 20, 2020
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Fabio Panzavolta
Collaboration is key to solve complex problems. I’ve always suffered from the evident lack of collaboration between people. It’s professionally frustrating when you’ve experienced effective teamwork.
Jan 14, 2020
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Fabio Panzavolta
Scrum requires a self-organized team to deliver "done" increments at the end of each Sprint. This peculiarity sometimes raises criticisms and questions when it is discussed in trainings or when coaching the clients: how can a team work without a leader? How are we going to do our job, if no one tells us what or how to do it?
Nov 15, 2019
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Fabio Panzavolta
A Sprint Goal is an objective set for the Sprint that can be met through the implementation of Product Backlog (cit. Scrum Guide).
Have you clearly defined a Sprint Goal at the end of your Sprint Planning? Is this Sprint Goal understandable and transparent to everyone? Is it defined in a way that provides guidance and flexibility to the Development Team?
The aim of this article is to raise awareness on the importance of having a Sprint Goal defined and to provide some suggestions on how to create one.
May 6, 2019
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Fabio Panzavolta
A few days ago, I was observing a Sprint Retrospective. The Scrum Team decided to work on the Definition of Done (DoD), identified as the most important topic to adapt for the next Sprint. The discussions were open and animated, when an unexpected discussion emerged during the session.
Mar 11, 2019
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Fabio Panzavolta
In 2016 the Scrum Values were added to the Scrum Guide. In this article I share a workshop I run several times, with excellent feedbacks, hoping that you'll see value in reusing it in your working environment.
Feb 5, 2019
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Fabio Panzavolta
In the past years I’ve been the king of procrastination... there's a way to reduce anxiety by thinking differently, this article explains my way of doing it.
Jan 6, 2019
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