Why the Fibonacci Sequence Works Well for Estimating If you’ve estimated with Planning Poker, you may very well have used cards with either the …
Why you should consider stopping sprint reviews For many teams, the sprint review has run its course and it’s time to stop doing them. Blasphemy? …
Managing Sprint Interruptions by Tracking Buffer Use In an ideal world, a Scrum team could perform the work of its sprints entirely uninterrupted. …
Overcoming Four Common Objections to the Daily Scrum Do Scrum long enough and someone will suggest stopping the daily scrums. Here’s how to reply.
Story Point Estimates Are Best Thought of as Ranges When estimating in story points, teams should think in terms of ranges and rounding up. Here’s why.
Five Reasons Why Batman Would Be a Great Scrum Master Batman would make the perfect Scrum Master. Once he eliminates crime in Gotham City, I plan on …
Four Questions to Fix Low Attendance at Your Sprint Reviews It can sometimes be a challenge to get people to attend and then participate in sprint reviews. …
Why the Three-Part User Story Template Works So Well The standard “As a...I...so that…” user story template has stood the test of time. Here’s why each …
Six Things Your Team Wants from You as Their Scrum Master From helping teams understand the boundaries of self organization to creating safety around things …
Your Team Won’t Think of Everything in Sprint Planning Meetings. And That’s OK. Your team is probably spending too much time in sprint planning meetings. Here’s how to spend less …
When Kanban is the Better Choice Debating between Scrum and Kanban? Guest author Brendan Wovchko offers five advantages Kanban has …
Organizations that Work on Fewer Projects at a Time Get More Done Most individuals know that multitasking slows us down. It has an equally negative effect on agile …
