<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>agile on Tom Hickerson's Site</title><link>https://tomhickerson.com/en/tags/agile/</link><description>Recent content in agile on Tom Hickerson's Site</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2023-2026</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://tomhickerson.com/en/tags/agile/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>How Scrum disempowers developers (and destroys agile)</title><link>https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2018/2018-05-30-how-scrum-disempowers-developers-and-destroys-agile/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2018/2018-05-30-how-scrum-disempowers-developers-and-destroys-agile/</guid><description>&amp;ldquo;The invention of the two day Scrum master training course is probably one of the worst things Scrum has done to agile. If you look at responsibilities, a good scrum master needs to be a strong technical manager with a huge grasp of organisational change, but the role is often fulfilled by a non-technical person with limited management experience from the product side of the organisation who cannot fulfil all of those responsibilities.</description></item><item><title>10x or not: You’ve got to do things right</title><link>https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2016/2016-07-04-10x-or-not-youve-got-to-do-things-right-devops-and-agile-tales/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2016/2016-07-04-10x-or-not-youve-got-to-do-things-right-devops-and-agile-tales/</guid><description>&amp;ldquo;This makes me think, isn’t it better to have existing people do well, and probably become 2x or 3x. If you have a 5 member team, instead of depending on a 10x person to come and fix all your worries, if you could make your current team 2x or 3x, you already have an advantage! But how do you do that?&amp;rdquo;
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10x or not: You’ve got to do things right — DevOps and Agile Tales</description></item></channel></rss>