Should Team Members Sign Up for Tasks During Sprint Planning? During sprint planning, a team selects a set of product backlog items they will work on during the …
Valuing Your Work as an Agile Coach How should we value our work as agile coaches and consultants? The way I do it is to ask myself if …
Let Go of Knowing: How Holding onto Views May Be Holding You Back You undoubtedly have a firmly held set of convictions about what is necessary to do agile well. …
Should You Share Details from the Retrospective? During a sprint retrospective, team members gather and discuss ways in which they can improve. This …
How Full to Fill a Sprint An important consideration in capacity-driven planning is how full to fill the sprint. To answer …
The Difference Between a Story and a Task What’s the difference between a user story and a task? Well that’s an easy question, I thought, the …
Multiple Levels of Done Having a “definition of done” has become a near-standard thing for Scrum teams. The definition of …
Using Scrum to Plan Your Wedding In my ScrumMaster classes I always make the point that Scrum is a general purpose framework that …
Don’t Blindly Follow Don't blindly adopt anything. Scrum is comprised of a self-organizing team that is given...
If it needs to happen: Schedule it! In the following guest post, Lisa Crispin argues the benefits of scheduling anything that's important.
How I Work, and Use Scrum Personally I’ve been asked a few times to comment on how I work, what it is I do to stay highly productive, …