Common Questions About Sprint Review, Answered
Interested in doing a sprint review, but unsure what it is and how it works? We’ve answered some common questions about sprint reviews.
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When the Scrum Master Role is Set Up to Be an Anti-Pattern
If you’ve never experienced what a good Scrum Master does for a team, it’s easy to misunderstand the role as being administrative: scheduling team meetings, taking notes on impediments, nagging people to update the status of things. When that happens, it’s natural for decision makers to feel that the role of Scrum Master is not a real job, and therefore decide not to invest time or money into it. At that point, one of several anti-patterns typically happens. Here are the ones I see most often:
Three Reports Expert Scrum Masters Use
In this blog, we’ll explore the purpose of three core reports every Scrum Master should understand and use: burndown, burnup, and throughput. We’ll also explain how to read and create each chart.
Common Questions About Sprint Planning, Answered
The goal of sprint planning is to ensure the Product Owner (PO), Developers, and Scrum Master are aligned on a plan for the upcoming sprint and collaboratively working toward the sprint goal. We’ll cover Scrum Guide’s sprint planning event topics.
Defects: Find Them Early, Fix Them Fast
Software defects, also referred to as issues, bugs, observations, or oopsies (my personal favorite), are one of your largest sources of wasted time and money. Read more to learn what you can do to fix them fast.
Stop Adding Tasks to User Stories
Creating tasks for each user story before implementation may seem like it is adding value and saving you time in the long run, but is it? Is it really? Or is it something you have always done without questioning its value?
The Three Inspect and Adapt Loops in Scrum
Read more to learn about EPC, why we use it, and which three inspect and adapt loops are used within the cycle of the framework, once per sprint.
Scrum Education Units (SEUs) and 5 Tips for Getting Them
If you have a Scrum Alliance certification, your certification is good for two years. Then, you can renew your certification, a process that involves paying a renewal fee and collecting Scrum Education Units (SEUs) to prove your Scrum prowess. Read more to learn 5 tips for getting SEUs.
A-CSM & CSP-SM: What’s In It For You?
Learn about the CSM Journey and why A-CSM and CSP-SM were created.
7 Reasons You Can’t Stabilize Velocity & How to Fix It
Learn a few reasons that teams can’t seem to stabilize velocity and how to fix them.