What I observe is that the team focus (and efficiency) is very much related to having a clear Sprint Goal.
Tag: scrum
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. For us it works good (as for now).
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?
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
It happens that when you suggest a retrospective meeting to a team you hear something like: “we sit together and talk often, why the hell should we waste our time for another meeting?” Makes sense, doesn’t it? And yet, my whole experience tells me otherwise. Even though we talk with each other every day, even…
3 Daily Scrum Questions Considered Harmful
Still using 3 standard questions for your daily Scrum? Oh, bad news for you: you are doing it wrong.
Transparency in Scrum and Sociocracy 3.0
The different approach to transaprency by Scrum and Sociocracy 3.0
Retrospective Tool: Improv Cards
Yet another retrospective warm-up exercise. But a good one.