In 2021 I developed and launched an online workshop to interactively explore with the people participating The Value in the Scrum Values. Soon I found out that I had more in store than I could interact over with attendants in the half day that I had foreseen. So I limited…

What have I been up to in 2021 as an independent Scrum Caretaker? Next to spending time on running my one-person company called Ullizee-Inc (always more time than expected and hoped for), I feel gratified for having facilitated the learning process of 300+ people in various courses and workshops. …

A big rock that was moved in 2021. I accidentally created the first edition of my book “Scrum — A Pocket Guide” in 2013. I consider how I described the Scrum Values in that first edition. In July 2016 they were added to the Scrum Guide. I consider how I already described the traditional three questions of the…

I have created a new, 3-hours workshop to guide people in the discovery of the value in the Scrum Values. The workshop includes cases I selected from my “Scrum Caretaker Book of Exercises” and will be followed by an informal, 30 minutes after-chat. Find all planned sessions of this specific…

The Product Owner in Scrum is accountable for the value delivered. Besides the fact that value is a very different driver than volume is (think outcome versus output), that accountability can hardly be demonstrated without a clearly identified ‘product’. Product is the vehicle to deliver value. Neither can a Product…

Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? How did its definition evolve before and after 2010 and…

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” (generally attributed to George Bernard Shaw) I call myself an independent Scrum Caretaker. It reflects who I am, how I feel, what I do: caring for Scrum AND caring for people. …

Scrum turns 25 in October 2020. Hip hip hooray! It is a good opportunity to share a few highlights from the past 17 years of my life as an independent Scrum Caretaker — of “My life of Scrum” (since 2003). September 2003. The founding managers of our company ask…

Six Essential Traits of the Game Apparently, it is easy to get stuck at interpreting the rules of Scrum. In the publication “Moving Your Scrum Downfield” (available as a free PDF) I have described the six essential traits of the game to help you get unstuck and up your game. As they express rather intrinsic and…