Episode #35 – Technical Excellence in Scrum




Agile Weekly Podcast show

Summary: Clayton Lengel-Zigich, Roy van de Water and Derek Neighbors talk about a blog post entitled "Technical Excellence in Scrum" by Dave Rooney. Jeff Sutherland suggested that Agile Leaders are not doing their job if they are not pushing Technical Excellence. Rooney writes that sometimes it's the teams that refuse, no matter how hard the leader pushes. Implementing Scrum causes impediments Technical Excellence practices can remove these impediments Sometimes the leader can mandate some practices if they can demonstrate the benefits Leaders should know how to do the practices they advocate