When one person cannot attend one of Scrum’s meetings, the best thing is almost always to conduct the meeting anyway. But there are important exceptions.
Some teams use the sprint review as a time for product owners or key stakeholders to formally approve the product backlog items completed during the sprint. Is this a good idea?
In this agile principles post from Mike Cohn, discover how Scrum organizations define products. Learn why good product definition avoids problems related to agile team structure, product backlog…
For at least 15 years, I’ve heard people say that projects are dead. Projects and project-based thinking are relics of the 20th century. I don’t buy it. Let me explain. Let’s start…
You have undoubtedly had team members complain at some point about the length of your daily scrums. Join the club. I want to share two extremely simple things you can do to put an end to most of those…
I recently emailed everyone who subscribes to my weekly tips a list of suggestions for ways to motivate team members to arrive on time to the daily scrum. For example, many teams have a rule that if…
