Don’t Defer a Meeting Because One Person Can’t Attend When one person cannot attend one of Scrum’s meetings, the best thing is almost always to conduct …
The Sprint Review as a Sign-Off Meeting Some teams use the sprint review as a time for product owners or key stakeholders to formally …
What Is a Product? In this agile principles post from Mike Cohn, discover how Scrum organizations define products. …
Is It Time to Stop Thinking about Projects? For at least 15 years, I’ve heard people say that projects are dead. Projects and project-based …
The 2 Things You Need to Do in Daily Scrums to End Complaints You have undoubtedly had team members complain at some point about the length of your daily scrums. …
Incentives and Deterrents for Starting Daily Scrums On Time I recently emailed everyone who subscribes to my weekly tips a list of suggestions for ways to …
The Best Way to Establish a Baseline When Playing Planning Poker Planning Poker relies on relative estimating, in which the item being estimated is compared to one …
Don’t Estimate the Sprint Backlog Using Task Points Some teams like story points so much, they invent task points and use those for sprint planning. …
How to Prevent Estimate Inflation A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a five-point story better not go by any other …
Sprint Planning for Agile Teams That Have Lots of Interruptions Most of the Scrum literature describes a situation in which a team is allowed to work without …
Summarizing the Results of a Sprint Although you may wish it weren’t the case, some Scrum Masters need to document how a sprint went. …
Teams Don’t Need to Think of Everything During Sprint Planning A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a painful sprint planning meeting. You might have been in …