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Ten Tips for More Effective Daily Scrums

In a recent weekly tip, I offered six tips on making the daily scrum more useful but I couldn't stop at six. Here are ten more tips to help make your daily scrum more useful.

Job Stories Offer a Viable Alternative to User Stories

As useful as user stories can be, they’ve never been right for every team. An exciting alternative for some teams is the job story.

Is It Time to Do Away with Scrum’s Product Owner Role

Scrum has only three official roles: Scrum Master, product owner, and team member. No distinction is made for roles like programmer, tester, database engineer, analyst, designer, or so on.

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? Maybe, but hear me out.

Managing Sprint Interruptions by Tracking Buffer Use

In an ideal world, a Scrum team could perform the work of its sprints entirely uninterrupted. Product owners would never introduce change. Customers would never request urgent new functionality. And…

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 offering him a job. Here’s why.

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. Here is advice on overcoming that problem.

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 like estimates and mistakes, here are six things teams want from their Scrum Masters.

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 time but plan better.

When Kanban is the Better Choice

Debating between Scrum and Kanban? Guest author Brendan Wovchko offers five advantages Kanban has over Scrum.

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