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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…