How do you Plan for Support Time in a Sprint? #AskArtisan
Many Scrum Teams ask how to plan for support work in a Sprint. Can you plan the unplanned? There's no simple answer, but there IS an answer!
Many Scrum Teams ask how to plan for support work in a Sprint. Can you plan the unplanned? There's no simple answer, but there IS an answer!
I'm often asked about Scrum goals; specifically Sprint Goals, Product Goals, and how they relate to each other. In this video, I'll tie them together for you.
Ever been out shopping only to get home and realized you didn't actually get what you needed? This is what happens to Scrum teams without a Sprint Goal!
When you set up a Scrum team, what do you do with your QAers? In this video, I'll explain why they should definitely be part of the team.
One of the questions I get asked a lot has to do with when a Sprint ends… what happens with all the work that isn’t finished at the end of the Sprint?
Women in Leadership Positions exhibit many styles, good, bad, and ugly. Do you work with a "Perfect Patty"? How about "Like me Linda"? Or the ever popular "Elizabitch"? You don't want to be any of these and here's why.
So… you have found yourself in a toxic work environment. Now what do you do? Read on to learn some options.
If you dread going to work, you MAY be in a toxic work environment. In this post, we’ll explore the signs of a toxic environment Here are 7 signs to be on the lookout for.
The Scrum Guide says that a Scrum team makes a forecast during Sprint Planning, but managers want a commitment. What’s the difference and why is a forecast much better than a commitment?
Product Backlogs should be relatively short. The longer they get, the harder they are to use effectively. In this blog post, I talk about why a large Product Backlog is bad news and what you can do to fix it.
Thanks to 20th century management theory, the world is filled with metrics and measures that are questionable. Many are useless. For example, a commonly used but effectively useless metric for knowledge creation workers (like those in IT, marketing, and other creative careers): utilization. Utilization is a metric that was meant to measure the percentage
Measuring the performance of an employee is never easy to do. It’s made much more difficult when we have a hard time understanding exactly what a person is supposed to be doing. In this blog post, we’ll clear up all of your questions about Scrum Masters, their accountabilities, and how