In this article, I discuss five tips to run your sprint planning meeting effectively. I have been a Scrum master for over 12 years, and these are my recommendations for every single Agile team use for their Sprint planning meeting. Tip1: Review your velocityAt the beginning of the Sprint planning, review your team’s sprint velocity. … [Read more…]
Planning in Scrum Many people wrongly assume that Scrum does not have any planning. I will say to them that they are entirely wrong and that we don’t do much upfront planning, but we continuously plan. Planning in Scrum is split into various levels that I will discuss in this article. However, what Scrum does … [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…]
Term Agile mindset has become a ubiquitous phrase in our daily life but what does it mean? Is there a checklist where we can try to measure ourselves to see how agile our mind and belief are? If you google the term Agile mindset, you will get hundreds of results with all different answers, and … [Read more…]
Introduction Considering I had read so many books on Scrum, I wasn’t expected to learn that much more? But oh boy was I wrong. I have never enjoyed any book on Agile more than this one; the reason behind is it is full of real-life example and explains the rationale behind every aspect of Scrum. … [Read more…]
Every day we go into the office early and leave a bit later trying to finish things. We are juggling stuff continuously, and it is a full-on firefight but when we Finish for the day and reflect on what we have achieved, Actually, the answer is nothing. Completely noting – square root of zero. We … [Read more…]
A question asked daily on Google, and every time I tell someone new on job title, what is a Scrum master? Those of you who haven’t heard of Scrum framework and you just met someone with the job title Scrum master. You will be left wondering what does this person do? The scrum master is … [Read more…]
When you are recruiting for a Scrum Master role, you want to ask interview questions that are more profound than just there knowledge of Scrum. You want to make sure that the Scrum Master you are recruiting embodies the Agile values. Here is a list of interview questions that I have used before and the … [Read more…]
Do we need a Retrospective after each sprint? Retrospective at the end of each sprint is a formal ceremony in Scrum and is the two out of the three pillar of the EMPIRICAL PROCESS. (Scrum framework is based on Empirical Process). As most teams that are doing Scrum use two weeks sprints and they sometimes … [Read more…]
Introduction to #noestimates We all have been in situations where we have given estimates, and they were wrong, and management held us accountable. And on the news, we hear every day that how big projects are overrun or cost many times more than originally estimated. What is the point of doing estimates as they are … [Read more…]