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. Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
The last event to happen in a Sprint is the Sprint Retrospective. The cadence is set as per the Sprint. It happens just after the Sprint Review and before the next Sprint Planning event. Sprint Retrospective The Sprint Retrospective that Read more…
Towards the end of the Sprint two important events happen – Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. In this post we will explore; understand Sprint Review and break couple of myths around Sprint Review. Sprint Review The Sprint Review happens at Read more…
Once the Sprint Planning is done and the Scrum Team starts sprinting; the Developers meet daily for an event called Daily Scrum. Daily Scrum is an important inspect and adapt opportunity for the Developers. Purpose: The purpose of Daily Scrum Read 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 Read more…
Every Sprint starts with a Sprint Planning. Like there is accountability within the Scrum Team, every event is an opportunity to inspect and adapt for the Scrum Team. Sprint Planning is the event where the Scrum Team collaborates to inspect Read more…
So far we have explored the accountabilities and the artifacts of Scrum. From here on, we will be exploring the 5 essential events of Scrum. Let’s start with “The Sprint”. The Sprint The Sprint is the heart beat of Scrum. Read more…
During my Scrum training sessions one of widely discussed and misunderstood topic is Sprint Goal. And there are couple of reasons behind it. A few of them could be Sprint Goal is not one of the 11 essentials. Even though Read more…
