Zvonimir Križ has 15 years experience in software development in military and the banking industry. For the last seven years he works as a team leader (10 + developers) on enterprise level online banking and teller application solutions. With a strong development background, he is very skilled in team leading, coordination, coaching and software architecture. Since 2009 he is practicing Scrum and other agile development techniques as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach. As a first CSM in Croatia, and co-founder and president of Agile Croatia,he is very active in agile community.

Presentation summary - Kaizen diary of a Scrum Master

Kaizen – Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement of business processes within a company, is deeply embedded in methods and techniques of agile and lean software development. In Scrum it is most evident at sprint retrospective meetings when the team is trying to improve the process and product based on the experience from the previous sprints.

This presentation is intended for all participants who want to hear a subjective story on retrospectives, based on development of the actual product during six two-week sprints. This is a story of the “frontline” Scrum Master:

Process or technical improvements? Small or big improvements? What are the improvements during the sprint?