Comparative Scrum
by Imane Khalikane & Jonathan KuronenGain immediate insights into where your teams need help and create a culture of data-driven continuous improvement. This assessment will help teams quickly understand what they need to amplify as well as where they have challenges, so they can focus their efforts where it matters and improve their ways of working together.
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Data-driven approach to growth
Scrum is by far the most popular framework used for agile ways of working. But as the Scrum Guide cautions, while Scrum may be simple to understand, it is difficult to master. Comparative Scrum is an assessment focusing solely on this popular methodology that helps teams and their organizations create a baseline of where they are, identify concrete areas of improvement and a start evolving their ways of working.
Created by coaches with experience from some of the most successful agile transformations in industry, Comparative Scrum helps people develop a data-driven approach to growth and fuels teams’ improvement backlogs at all levels of the organization.
Practice Informs Theory
Trusted by several leading organizations involved in agile transformations, the assessment covers the most critical elements of Scrum necessary to get your team from novice to advanced.
Focus Where it Matters
The results will help you develop an improvemant roadmap with your Scrum teams and prioritize the most important actions in a consistent, structured way.
An Invitation to a Conversation
The Comperative Scrum assessment increases coherence and understanding between the coach and the team. It is an invitation to a conversation that helps the members of the team and their coach align on a path forward.
Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect and Openness
The assessment is based on the five values of Scrum: Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect and Openness. The Scrum team can discover these values as they work through Scrum Events, Roles, Artifacts and Metrics. Comparative Scrum combines these four dimensions.The outcome of a Comparative Scrum assessment is a starting point for the team`s continuous improvement plan. Equipped with data and insights from this validated survey, coaches can identify where they can be the most helpful and teams can get the necessary guidance to increase performance.
Sample Survey Items
Ceremonies
The Daily Scrum provides value to the team.Ceremonies
The Product Owner maintains an updated and prioritized Backlog.Ceremonies
Sprint Planning concludes with a common Sprint goal for the whole team.Ceremonies
Incomplete user stories return to the Backlog at the end of the Sprint.Ceremonies
The team demonstrates tangible customer value created from the user stories in the Sprint.Ceremonies
Feedback received from stakeholders is translated into user stories for future Sprints.Ceremonies
All team members (including the Product Owner and the Scrum Master) participate in the Sprint Retrospective.Artifacts
All impediments in the Sprint Backlog are assigned and owned.Artifacts
The definition of Done is created by the team members.Sample Survey Items
Ceremonies
The Daily Scrum provides value to the team.Ceremonies
The Product Owner maintains an updated and prioritized Backlog.Ceremonies
Sprint Planning concludes with a common Sprint goal for the whole team.Top Features
Benchmark your performance against other companies in your industry.
Quickly identify where you should invest your efforts and improve where it matters to your teams.
Scale easily – perform analysis at the team, program and organizational levels.
Deploy a data-driven continuous improvement strategy.
Gives your team a voice and empower them to agree on their improvement plan.
Benchmark your performance against other companies in your industry.
Quickly identify where you should invest your efforts and improve where it matters to your teams.
Scale easily – perform analysis at the team, program and organizational levels.
Deploy a data-driven continuous improvement strategy.
Gives your team a voice and empower them to agree on their improvement plan.
Imane Khalikane
Jonathan Kuronen
Imane Khalikane
Imane Khalikane is an Enterprise Agile Coach and Trainer, highly passionate about delivering customer value by coaching
leaders to provide supporting environment, developing motivated high performing self-organizing agile teams. Believes “Collective Ownership,
Collaborate to Deliver and Reflect to Improve” (Heart of Agile) as fundamentals to grow Agility in an organization. With a background in IT.
Imane became actively involved with Agile / Scrum in 2011 and have been working with clients across Europe and middle east, initially
acting as a Scrum Master and currently as an Enterprise agile Coach.
Jonathan Kuronen
Jonathan Kuronen is a senior Agile Coach with particular expertise in Scrum and Kanban since 2012, gained from working in numerous
Agile Transformations, including the two largest to date in Europe, BNP Paribas and ING, both in the financial services industry.
Having supported rollout of established agile methodologies and frameworks, i.e. SAFe, Spotify and Netflix, is adept at coaching teams,
departments and various levels of leadership.
Take immense pride in supporting individuals and teams adapt their mindsets and improve their ways of working to deliver value to
end customers sooner. Has demonstrable experience in building high performing teams, leadership and changing organizational cultures.
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Fuel data-driven continuous improvement efforts at the team, program and organizational levels through uncommon insights and actionable feedback.