Anti-patterns of a Product Owner (PO)..

Meet Ms. SWAT-i, a Product Owner (PO) for whom everything is a fire-fighting operation. She handles everything as a SWAT team operation, often at the last moment. Anti-patterns Ms. PO, you want to ensure your team fails? Use some of these anti-patterns 🙁 Not being available to team. An absent PO is a sure shot… Continue reading Anti-patterns of a Product Owner (PO)..

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

Shrink or Grow Sprint Length

Sprint length to shrink or grow. Jen, one of the Scrum Master I am coaching and mentoring asked recently: I am scrum master for this team and generally, we do two-week sprints. But, for this sprint the team does not have enough work, so they want to shorten the sprint from two weeks to one week.… Continue reading Shrink or Grow Sprint Length

Burnup looking like a Hockey Stick?

When was the last time you looked at the burnup chart? Do you think this burnup chart draws a good portrait of how the team is handling the work and creating value? Are you worried that your burnup chart is morphing into a Hockey stick? Go ahead.. grab a copy of the burnup chart!