Sprints

Do you find it difficult to decide whether you should remove stories from your sprint? Maybe you’re worried about how your team might react. If you are a Product Owner, I’m sure you’ve been through that.  The trick is to...

Agile welcomes changes, even when they happen late in development. The critical part is having a good understanding of the value it brings and knowing how to handle that change.  How to deal with user story changes that come in...

Being‌ ‌a‌ ‌Scrum‌ ‌Master‌ ‌can‌ ‌be‌ ‌challenging‌ ‌when‌ ‌you‌ ‌are‌ ‌planning‌ ‌the‌ ‌‌first‌ ‌Sprint‌ ‌with‌ ‌a‌ ‌new‌ ‌team‌.‌ ‌Your‌ ‌responsibility‌ ‌is‌ ‌more‌ ‌than‌ ‌just‌ ‌adding‌ ‌the‌ ‌Sprint‌ ‌Events‌ ‌to‌ ‌everyone’s‌ ‌calendar.‌ ‌ ‌‌You’ll‌ ‌have‌ ‌to‌ ‌make‌ ‌sure‌ ‌that‌ ‌your‌...

The most important aspect of a sprint length is consistency, no matter the duration of the sprint. If you established a sprint length of 1, 2, or 4 weeks, then that’s the time range you want to continue with.  But...

Over time, I got this question many times from the developers I worked with: “Why do we have to meet every single day to discuss what each one of us does if there are no updates since yesterday?”. And...

Estimations are an important tool in Scrum. They help the Product Owner create a forecast of what the team can deliver and when. And it helps the developers understand how much work they can do in a single sprint. Then...

From the point a user story was estimated to its completion, the given estimation might not apply anymore, and that’s completely acceptable. In the end, by assigning story points, or T-shirt sizes, or any other system you may use,...

In scrum, timeboxing is an outstanding component. The events are thought to be built in such a manner that it helps teams focus only on the most important topics. It drives team members towards reaching the meeting goal, therefore...

If you are going to ask someone what is scrum, besides the people who have never heard about it, I’m sure that in most of the answers you’ll hear something about the Daily Scrum. But if you ask someone...

People in different roles can attend the Daily Scrum Event, but there is a purpose for each one of them to be there. That is why it’s important as a Scrum Team to understand when specific people can bring...

To properly schedule the Scrum Events, you need to think about the best structure and flow that is suitable for your team and for the project context. It might sound easy but you have to consider a couple of...

Many teams don’t track their velocity, which can become a bit of a problem because you have no data to look at. You are developing software by trying to guess how many items the Development Team can ship...

There are a lot of opinions on whether sprint 0 should exist or not in a Scrum project. I personally think that what is confusing about it is the fact that the term is misused for what we really...