Speeding up Your Scrum Teams
Effective Scrum use is more than Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, and so on. To see a big difference in your team's Sprints, make these workflow changes.
Don’t Waste Time in Sprint “Capacity” Planning
Trying to plan detailed capacity for a Sprint? Thankfully, there are two things we can do to make capacity planning easier (and faster) in Sprint Planning.
Limited Skills, Great Demand
Specialists with a particular skill can get stretched thin! But there's ways to solve this dilemma other than assigning them to ten Scrum teams at once.
Keep Your Eyes on the Sprint Goal
In this article, we'll discuss how a team bares responsibility for the Sprint and what should be done if they can’t get everything done they committed to.
Plan Only Small Backlog Items
Bigger requirements are more complex, which typically have greater risk, which leads to more cost and/or waste. In other words, bigger is DEFINITELY not better!
More Than Just Code
Plan your transition to Agile Development for the long haul. It's more than just code. Treat it that way!
Backlog Refinement Part 6: Slicing Backlog Items con’t
This blog post seeks to provide some tips you can use to help your teams successfully do large item estimation. Part 6 of my series on Backlog Refinement!
Backlog Refinement Part 5: Slicing Backlog Items
This blog post seeks to provide some tips you can use to help your teams successfully do large item estimation. Part 5 of my series on Backlog Refinement!
Backlog Refinement Part 4: Estimating Backlog Items
Keeping the Product Backlog estimated is hard because of constant changes. What's the best estimation technique? Part 4 of my series on Backlog Refinement!
Backlog Refinement Part 3: When Have We Refined Enough?
How do you make sure the Scrum team refines enough backlog items for the next Sprint? Part 3 of my series on Backlog Refinement!
Backlog Refinement Part 1: What It Is and How It Works
While coaching Scrum teams I've noticed how difficult effective backlog refinement is, so I wrote a blog post series on how backlog refinement works.
Estimate Like a Pro
Estimation isn't about knowing how long something will take to build but about determining how complicated something is, then using practical experience.