<< Sprint Planning Meetings / Sprint Backlog | Series Home | Demo Happens After Every Sprint >> When you think about the hardest part of Scrum, it isn’t the daily stand-ups. Nor the sprint backlog. Not even the demos at the end. The hardest part – and the oft missed part – is “Inspect and…
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ScrumBut – Part 4 – Sprint Planning Meetings / Sprint Backlog
<< Daily Scrum | Series Home | Retrospective After Every Sprint >> Ah, the Sprint Backlog. While not quite as visible as the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Backlog makes up the core trifecta of Scrum. And what developer wouldn’t love it? Every two weeks (or four weeks, or whatever iteration length you have) we’ll get…
ScrumBut – Part 3 – Daily Scrum
<< Team Members Sit Together | Series Home | Sprint Planning Meetings / Sprint Backlog >> The most visible – and often most abused – part of Scrum is the Daily Scrum, also known as the “Stand-Up”. In this meeting, the whole team meets with the participants answering three questions: What did I do yesterday?…
ScrumBut – Part 2 – Team members sit together
<< Timeboxed Iterations | Series Home | Daily Scrum >> One of the realities of many corporate environments is that you work with a group of people called a “team” but a variety of factors prevent you from actually sitting together. At Alistair Cockburn’s keynote presentation (PPT) at Agile 2009, he showed an interesting slide…
ScrumBut – Part 1 – Timeboxed Iterations
<< Introduction | Series Home | Team Members Sit Together >> Perhaps the very first and most widely “adapted” practice in the Scrum world is that of the timeboxed iteration. Henrik’s Scrum Checklist identifies four subareas of concern: Iteration Length 4 weeks or less Always end on time Team not disrupted or controlled by outsiders…
ScrumBut – Part 0 – Introduction
Series Home | Timeboxed Iterations >> Last week, Jurgen Appelo wrote an article called Scrumbuts are the best part of Scrum. I followed up with my Scrumbuts are the downfall of Agile post. Ultimately Jurgen and I are in agreement – it is important to be able to have the maturity to modify a process…