Oh the irony of a Pig and Chicken paradigm. If you know of the Scrum parable of the pig and chicken. Then you may find this story humorous. I'm working with a group trying to teach them just enough Scrum to form a project team. Trying to facilitate just enough team formation to allow them to self organize. We planed a 3 day workshop, to be immediately followed by sprint one. It went well. Although some troubling patterns were apparent, we summoned up the courage to keep moving forward. Fast forward to Sprint Two's planning session. Only three of the seven team members were at the planning session, one had to leave for an hour during the session. The product owner did not appear, the scrum master had a higher priority meeting. Summing more courage to venture into the unknown the 3 team members and the two coaches (we pair coach teams) ventured into the unknown. We discussed the obvi...