STRIPS by Scrum Manager

Agility, in comic strips

Humour to recognise what's not quite so funny in your own team.

This week's strip

Four-panel comic strip in a meeting room: the team's assessor, standing by a whiteboard, sets an anonymous survey from 0 to 3 on whether they feel free to say what they think; the manager stands behind the two respondents, looking over their shoulders, and tells them to take their time; two threes appear on the whiteboard and the manager celebrates with his arms raised while the two respondents look at him unsmiling; the assessor writes MONDAY on the whiteboard and tells him they will do it again on Monday, without him in the room, and the respondents look relieved.

A Dictated Diagnosis Is No Diagnosis

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The collection

The How Belongs to Whoever Does It

Trust Without Brakes

The Ceremony on the Wrong Track

Shadow AI

Value as the north star

The bottleneck moves

Assistance amplifies, it does not fix

Validated means it solves, not that it works

Generated is not done

Every strip hides a concept

Behind every panel there is an agile management concept and a link to keep pulling the thread.

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