Can You Make Changes To A User Story During The Sprint
Agile welcomes changes, even when they happen late in development. The critical part is having a good understanding of the value it brings and...
Planning Releases & Sprints In Scrum – A Beginner’s Guide
The purpose of release planning is to deliver in production, at certain intervals, the features we develop to make them available to users.
Each release...
Is The Product Owner The Only One Writing User Stories
User stories open meaningful conversations. They help you plan and prioritize the features you want to build. And they keep you focused on what...
Splitting User Stories – Why You’re Doing It Wrong
Although breaking down user stories is one of the important skills of an Agile team, we struggle often to split those working items into...
Refining User Stories – 4 Common Mistakes
Not covering some essential details when you present user stories to developers can affect the sprint. When these details are overlooked, developers don’t entirely...
How To Split Complex User Stories Into More Manageable Items
Do you find it difficult to split complex user stories? Do not worry, it’s a common thing that happens among many teams.
Some teams don’t...
How To Deal With An Empty Product Backlog
Your next Sprint is getting close, and you’ve run out of user stories. What now? What will your team work on, considering the empty...
4 Things You Need To Start Your First Sprint
Being‌ ‌a‌ ‌Scrum‌ ‌Master‌ ‌can‌ ‌be‌ ‌challenging‌ ‌when‌ ‌you‌ ‌are‌ ‌planning‌ ‌the‌ ‌‌first‌ ‌Sprint‌ ‌with‌ ‌a‌ ‌new‌ ‌team‌.‌ ‌Your‌ ‌responsibility‌ ‌is‌ ‌more‌ ‌than‌ ‌just‌...
6 Challenges In Running Effective Refinement Sessions With New Teams
Do you know what can make Refinement sessions more difficult than they already are? Running effective Refinement sessions with new teams formed by new...
Create Your First Agile Release Plan
Why do we need to plan releases? It would be great if we'd create a plan where everything works perfectly. And where the entire...
6 Reasons Why Shorter Sprints Are More Effective
The most important aspect of a sprint length is consistency, no matter the duration of the sprint. If you established a sprint length of...
4 Benefits Of The Daily Scrum For Developers
Over time, I got this question many times from the developers I worked with: “Why do we have to meet every single day to...
When Is The Right Time To Estimate In Scrum
Estimations are an important tool in Scrum. They help the Product Owner create a forecast of what the team can deliver and when. And...
4 Challenging Activities For Scrum Masters
We identify many challenges when implementing Scrum and these challenges will differ from team to team. I’m talking below about 4 of them and...
How often should we refine the Product Backlog
The Scrum Guide doesn't consider the Product Backlog Refinement being a Scrum event. But it has its purpose, and we can see benefits when...
5 Easy Steps To Onboard New Team Members In A Scrum Team
Any new member has to feel welcomed in the team he joins. But besides that, it’s so important for him to understand how the...
How To Manage Developers Push-back In Scrum
As I started my journey with the Scrum framework in the Product Owner role, I have come across this push-back many times. And to...
10 Things Any Beginner Scrum Master Should Know
I had a lot of questions as a beginner Scrum Master. I’ve read the Scrum Guide over a hundred times. But I still didn’t...
Understanding Epics, Features, And User Stories
To avoid constraining teams, the Scrum Guide is not clear about each of these terms’ purposes. So there is a lot of confusion on...
The 3 Scrum Roles That Make A Scrum Team Great
One of the most essential parts of scrum is the roles that it assigns to the team members. The scrum role responsibilities differ from...