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…
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…
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 follows the Sprint Review is an event for the Scrum team 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 the end of the Sprint. At Sprint Review the Scrum 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 is to inspect progress towards the Sprint Goal and adapt 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 older version of Scrum guide itself where it stated that 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 it is not one of the 11 essentials, we the Read more…
Last weekend had pleasure to attend Professional Scrum Product Owner class from Steve Porter and Nagesh Sharma. The class was real eye opener for me who has been working with Scrum framework for over 6 years now. In last 6 years, I have worked in different roles; scrum developer, scrum Read more…
So far I have discussed, basic Scrum theory and the Scrum roles in my previous posts. Moving forward, in the next three posts (including this), lets explore the next three essentials of Scrum i.e. the three artefacts. Let’s start in order, with Product Backlog. Product Backlog As Scrum guide describes, Read more…
I recently attended a Product Owner training from Scrum.org conducted by Nagesh Sharma. The training was no doubt awesome and provided a lot insights into the role of Product Owner and Product Ownership; but one important thing that Nagesh said and caught my attention was Whether to be a good Product Read more…