5 dysfunctions of Sprint Planning

5 Dysfunctions: Sprint Planning

Every Sprint starts with a Sprint Planning event. It is very crucial to ensure that the Scrum Team comes to a shared understanding of what and how are they going to deliver a “Done” increment that creates maximum business impact. Although, like other events Sprint Planning also is often marred Read more…

The Rules of Scrum

Scrum, is a framework to address complex adaptive problems while creatively and productively delivering products of highest possible value. To start doing Scrum, all we need is 3 Roles, 3 Artifacts and 5 Events. These are the 11 essentials of Scrum. Then, there are rules and guidelines described throughout the Scrum Read more…

The 5 Dysfunctions of a Daily Scrum

Daily Scrum is an important Inspect and Adapt event for a Scrum team. Yet the purpose is often ignored and swept under the carpet by a multitude of teams. In my 9 years of experience with Scrum I have seen teams using Daily Scrum for all the wrong reasons; although very Read more…

Daily Scrum – Three questions no more!

Daily Scrum is an important inspect and adapt event in the Sprint life-cycle. However, it has been taken for granted or converted into a status update meeting by many teams. The blame could be credited to multiple factors including the older version of Scrum guide itself where it stated that Read more…

Increment

Understanding Scrum……Increment(Part 7 of 12)

In continuation of “Understanding Scrum” series, in this part let’s explore what an “Increment” is. Increment As Scrum Guide describes it The Increment is the sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during a Sprint and the value of the increments of all previous Sprints. It is the third Read more…