Tag : scrum

Add life to your Virtual Meetings

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Add life to your Virtual Meetings

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 […]

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Easy but effective tips for a better Sprint Planning, part 2b: adding resilience

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 […]

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Easy but effective tips for a better Sprint Planning, part 2a: avoiding impediments

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 […]

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The truth that drives us

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The truth that drives us

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 […]

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Baseline definition of done

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Baseline definition of done

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 […]

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Modern Tooling, Practices & Scrum

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Modern Tooling, Practices & Scrum

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 […]

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