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.
Tag: scrum
Yes You Should Re-Estimate
What to do with an unfinished story? Re-estimate it and finish it.
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…
My X Is Better Than Your Y!
How not to waste time on pointless discussion about personal preferences? Use consent and experiments to bypass them.
Killing daily meeting (one dev at a time)
Daily meeting can go horribly wrong. One of the anti-patterns is to follow the “dev by dev” approach. There are better ways.
The carpet that bothered them
What are retrospectives good for? Surprisingly, even for teams that discuss things together on a daily basis, a meeting devoted to process improvement can make a difference.