10 takeaways from Book: Extreme Teams
Extreme Teams” is a book by Robert Bruce Shaw that explores the characteristics of high-performing teams. Here are ten takeaways from the book:
Extreme Teams” is a book by Robert Bruce Shaw that explores the characteristics of high-performing teams. Here are ten takeaways from the book:
“Invest” is a commonly used acronym in agile methodologies, which stands for Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable. It is a set of criteria used to evaluate and define user stories or product backlog items in an agile project. Each letter in “Invest” represents a characteristic of a well-formed user story: By following the … [Read more…]
Becoming a great Scrum Master requires continuous learning and improvement, as well as the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Here are some tips to help you take your Scrum Master skills from good to great:
should the product owner attend the daily scrum meeting as well?
Estimating user stories using story points is a technique commonly used in Agile software development to help teams plan and prioritize their work. Here are the steps to estimate a user story using story points: Overall, the goal of estimating user stories using story points is to provide a relative measure of complexity that helps … [Read more…]
To understand what ScrumBan is, we first need to revisits what Scrum and Kanban are. Scrum: Scrum is based on six principles: 1: Empirical Process Control: (transparency, inspection, and adaptation). Every Scrum ceremony has its core based on these 3 Empirical Processes. In the sprint review we inspect the product that we are developing; in … [Read more…]
As a Scrum Master, you don’t have the power to give your team pay rise and bonuses, but you are still responsible for motivating them to do their best. So, what tools does the Scrum Master have in his toolbox to deliver this? Money? Before we look at the tools in Scrum Master toolkit, I … [Read more…]
Scrum is a light framework to manage a product development. It does not govern the technical aspect of the project. If you want to build a robust product, then you will have to look at software development best practices, and the best resource for that is The Extreme Programming (XP) camp. Whenever I am coaching … [Read more…]
Kanban is a system that was developed by Toyota to streamline and manage its manufacturing process. It was then updated in recent years and used in software development. However, with the spread of lean start-ups, Kanban is getting employed by all business departments including HR and marketing. The core concepts of Kanban are: Make the … [Read more…]
The role of a Scrum Master is to educate and coach the team into using Agile methodology and industry best practice. Scrum master will also train the team to work together to deliver on the team commitments and to be self-organizing. So, a successful scrum master will make the team into a fantastic self-organizing team … [Read more…]