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Virtual meetings have never been so hard or so vital. These days with the lack of day to day interactions it becomes much harder to ensure our message is accepted and understood. So if you are finding yourself hosting meetings that are a little lack lustre, where people aren’t learning anything, which result in the […]

Ever find yourself in a position where sprint surprises are seriously impacting the teams ability to deliver? If you do, then this post is for you. Here we will look at building a teams capacity to respond quickly to future challenges. We will not alter the sprint plan, instead we will develop the teams capacity to […]

You are new to the organization. Your first mandate will be to access the state of Agility and to ensure that everyone else has the same understanding of what it means to be Agile Describe the approach you will choose Tools and techniques you plan to use How you validate that you are successful (metrics […]

Ever find yourself faced with unique impediments for which nobody seems to know the solution? The only course of action seems to be to accept that the impediment is there, escalate it to management, inform stakeholders of delays, then attend the daily scrum regularly to give an update to the team, and when they get […]

“The work to be performed in the Sprint is planned at the Sprint Planning. This plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team. Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.” At the end of the sprint […]

Often as a Scrum Master you can find yourself having to disseminate large amounts of static information to your team. This type of information could be an introduction or an update to the scrum framework an introduction or update to a scaled agile framework a corporate presentation We can achieve this by making a small […]

Try these tips if your daily scrum doesnt resemble how the scrum guide describes it: “Daily Scrums improve communications, eliminate other meetings, identify impediments to development for removal, highlight and promote quick decision-making, and improve the Development Team’s level of knowledge. This is a key inspect and adapt meeting.”

The scrum framework dictates that each scrum team is self managing. But why is that? A study funded by the US Federal Reserve Bank found that 3 things motivate us 1. Autonomy2. Mastery3. Purpose !Self managing = Autonomy = Self managing! It seems that when we have all these 3 we will do a much […]

Probably the best (and interesting) discussion by Ken Schwaber I’ve heard regarding the [baseline] definition of done, as well as the introduction to the concept of UNDONE! 30 minutes, but well worth it. Why do you need a DoD? If you don’t know what done or do is, how do you what you are doing in […]

Modern Tooling and Scrum Without using modern tools and practices, Scrum may not be delivering what it promised – increased transparency Boards not showing the progress that is being achieved (people don’t know how to split tasks so that they move in 1 day) which also makes burndown charts become useless. – increased velocity Test […]