Jesse Houwing — November 14, 2019 As Scrum Trainer I get to meet a lot of teams and hear of many different ways to do Scrum. Most are valid ways, yet some seem more aligned with the values of Scrum or the purpose of the specific Scrum Element. In this post we’ll have a look … Continue reading Focus on What Was “Done” During Sprint Review
Olivier Ledru — October 15, 2019 CONTEXT Your Sprint is over. Your increment is “done”, you have coded cleanly, your unit tests and integration tests are bright green, you are proud of your work. The Sprint Review is running smoothly. The Sprint Retrospective allows the team to find 1 or 2 axes of improvement without … Continue reading Struggling With Capacity in Sprint Planning
Ian Mitchell — October 10, 2019 “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly” — The Agile Manifesto A few weeks ago we considered the Agile Manifesto from a lean perspective. We saw that it is possible to map the 12 agile principles to … Continue reading Sprint Retrospectives with Kanban
Martin Hinshelwood — September 20, 2019 Follow @MrHinsh — September 20, 2019 StartupStockPhotos / Pixabay As part of the Scrum.org webinar “Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer – Martin Hinshelwood – Answering Your Most Pressing Scrum Questions” I was asked a number of questions. Since not only was I on the spot and live, I thought … Continue reading How Do You Incorporate a Design Sprint in Scrum?
Hotfixes can create chaos internally if things are done hastily and hurt the overall customer experience. Greg Giletto on September 19, 2019 Every marketer knows about the allure of the “hotfix.” Something on the site needs to be changed, but the dev team can’t do it until the next release, which is two weeks away. … Continue reading When to use a hotfix on your site during a sprint (and when not to)
Barry Overeem — September 2, 2019 — September 2, 2019 In this series of posts, we share our favorite strings of Liberating Structures for Scrum Events. In this post, we share the design for a Sprint Review. All the strings are freely available on this board in Trello. For the sake of readability, we will … Continue reading Improving the Sprint Review with Liberating Structures (Variant #1)
Ian Mitchell — August 28, 2019 — August 28, 2019 “A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution” — Dustin Hoffman I’ve always been intrigued by the different ways in which Scrum Teams go about their Sprint Reviews. It isn’t as though I coach a range of techniques, and suggest that … Continue reading Sprint Reviews with Kanban
Wesley Bush — July 1, 2019 — July 1, 2019 Many SaaS companies launch a product-led growth model—but never update it. When the executive team calls me and asks why they aren’t converting users into customers, I tell them to buy a plant. Seriously. If they don’t water the plant, it’s going to wither and … Continue reading SaaS Growth: The “Triple A” Sprint Framework that Gets Results
Ian Mitchell — June 18, 2019 — June 18, 2019 geralt / Pixabay “When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.” – Bryant H. McGill A few months ago we looked at how teams can optimize flow across … Continue reading Sprint Planning with Kanban
Fabio Panzavolta — May 15, 2019 Follow @collectivgenius — May 15, 2019 Sophieja23 / Pixabay What is a Sprint Goal? “The Sprint Goal is an objective that will be met within the Sprint through the implementation of the Product Backlog” (quote from the Scrum Guide). The Sprint Goal is a phrase that can be used … Continue reading Five Questions for a Sprint Goal!
