Try rotating your team roles in a round-robin fashion. Each sprint have a different team member responsible for repeatable (and often mundane) activities.
Category: agile
Parallel Universe
How to measure what is hard to measure? This one trick can help.
Simple & Powerful Sprint Capacity Planning Technique
A simple trick that could help you better predict the capacity of your next sprints. All you need to do is to gather some more data about the past ones.
Yes You Should Re-Estimate
What to do with an unfinished story? Re-estimate it and finish it.
Lessons in Bathroom Cleaning
Bathrooms are shining if you clean them often & you take responsibility for it. Same with code. It will shine if you look after it regularly.
Two Approaches to Daily Meeting
The 2 most popular ways to run daily meetings (but you should use the 2nd one!)
Why Sprint Goal?
What I observe is that the team focus (and efficiency) is very much related to having a clear Sprint Goal.
1 Week Sprint – After Few Weeks.
1 week sprint is enough to get things done once you get a hang of it. Give it a try and see how your team improves.
1 Week Sprint Hurts. But in a Valuable Way.
Is 1 Week Sprint a good or a bad idea? There is only one way to find out. It works fine for us. Here are the pros and cons.
Sprint Plan
Ah, the plans… You spent hours preparing them and then… eh…