How do you do Sprint Planning? Are you struggling to keep the team interested in coming to Sprint Planning, every sprint? Show them the VALUE! Use my 7Cs of sprint planning to keep your sprint planning on track and make it the most productive meeting for the team. Let me explain each of these Cs in… Continue reading 7Cs of Sprint Planning
Category: Checklist
Standard Work
Standard Work is one of the most powerful but least used Lean tools. By documenting the current practices, it forms the baseline for continuous improvement. Let’s review some of the benefits quickly. Benefits of Standard Work Standardizes the work across different teams, different people; ensuring consistency across the organization; making outcomes predictable and measurable. Sets… Continue reading Standard Work
Improve Daily Scrum
Daily Scrum or Daily Stand Up is a very important ceremony in the Scrum framework. As part of the Daily Scrum, the team meets on a regular basis for a quick sync up of 15 minutes. Remember, you only have 15 minutes to finish this Daily Scrum. We want to use every minute optimally during this ceremony,… Continue reading Improve Daily Scrum
INVEST in your User Stories – Nimesh Soni
User Stories are the lifeline of an Agile team. Even the BEST, high performing teams will struggle to deliver Value if they are fed bad Stories. As they say, INVEST in your User Stories! Use this visual worksheet to help you, guide you in writing better User Stories. Help your team Help you with this worksheet.… Continue reading INVEST in your User Stories – Nimesh Soni
The Art of getting MORE done with LESS
Can Agilists use Check Lists? Can checklists help them perform at a much better level? To answer this question, we will have to visit the two bookends of User Stories. Please grab copies of your team’s Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD). A user story should not be allowed to go onto… Continue reading The Art of getting MORE done with LESS