Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process (Shawn Kahl's Library)

The daily scrum is a core Scrum practice. If you don’t do it, you aren’t doing Scrum. During the daily scrum each team member updates and synchronizes with all other team members to get a shared picture of the full scope of work. But when the daily scrum starts, which person should provide his update first? Scrum doesn’t define this. Each team will have its own approach.

To say, “I have finally achieved agility!” is a meaningless comment. As Mike Cohn nicely summarized, “Agile is not something you become, it’s something you become more of” (Cohn 2010). There is no end state that you can call agile or Scrum. Instead, becoming more proficient with Scrum and more agile is a process of continuous, never-ending improvement aimed at improving your bottom line.

You won’t be agile for very long if you don’t start automating your tests.