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Daily Scrum, do I have to?
The Daily Scrum This will be the first in a series of ‘mini-blog’ posts, small bite sized content with hopefully small nuggets of knowledge, inspiration or motivation. Its a question that gets asked a...
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Late For The For the Daily Stand Up? You’ll Be Sorry!
What happens if you are for the Scrum Daily Stand Up? The daily stand up is a very important meeting. It sets the tone for the day and ensures that everyone is in line. Have you noticed that people...
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Should a Product Owner Attend Retrospectives?
The short answer is YES. The Product Owner is part of the Team The Product Owner is part of the team, and should be involved in any discussions about improving things. A scrum team will never reach...
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Ask Questions, Don’t Solve Problem
This article is more aimed at Scrum Masters, but I think there are key take aways that can be applied to any leadership role. Facilitator first Remember as a scrum master you are a facilitator first....
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Don’t Rename the Sprint Review
Its called the Sprint Review for a Reason In my previous post about the Sprint Planning Meeting: The Sprint Review: The Product Owners Meeting I went through in depth regarding this Scrum ceremony....
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What do you do if your Sprint is derailing?
Did your Sprint Derail? I am sure its happened to the best of us, you spend time refactoring your backlog; prioritising it to ensure everyone is on the same page. You complete your Sprint Planning and...
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Scrum Isn’t A Silver Bullet
Scrum Won’t Solve all the Problems I get a lot of emails and messages whenever I publish a post, usually they connect with someone and they ask for more information in fixing problems and implementing...
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When User Stories Get Bigger What should you do when user stories get bigger? We have all been in the situation. You discuss a user story; you have a pretty good understanding of how it needs to be...
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Estimate Story Points in Ranges
Estimate Story Points in Ranges Someone once told me this great analogy for estimating story points. Image you have a well where you take water, and you need to transport 10 litres of water back to...
View ArticleScrum Master, Not Scrum Manager
A Scrum Master is not a Manager Often organisations new to Scrum and trying to implement it struggle with the Scrum Master role. It is a person who the team does not report too; yet they are...
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