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 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…
In the previous post in this series I provided some insights into Product Backlog. In this post I will explore Sprint Backlog. Sprint Backlog It is a set a selected Product Backlog Items from the Product Backlog for the sprint and a plan of how to create a potentially releasable Read more…
Recently, had a chance to work with the team which thought it was under-performing, not efficient and wanted to become a high performing team. The first thing that hit me was, why is the team thinking so? Are there any specific challenges that the team is unable to handle, which Read more…
The third and final role which is essential to start working with Scrum is the Scrum Master. As every other role, Scrum Master also has its own accountability and responsibility. Scrum Master in the simplest terms can be described as the master of Scrum. This is one person role; accountable Read more…
The next role without which Scrum would be incomplete is the Development Team. Let’s explore the accountability, responsibility and attributes of the Development Team. The Development Team The Development Team is a set of professionals, motivated by a common purpose. The Development team is accountable for delivering the potentially releasable Read more…
A “whatsapp” group discussion triggered this post and I was amazed to see that most people who are new to Scrum often find it difficult to distinguish between “Acceptance Criteria” and “Definition of Done”. Here’s my attempt to bring out the differences. Short answer, “Acceptance Criteria” is all about intended functionality; Read more…