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).
Tag: scrum
Sprint Plan
Sometimes your Sprint goes as planned. Like on this picture: But sometimes your Sprint plan ends like this: Sad, but sometimes true. Sometimes you end like this. What to do then? Inspect and adapt. Retrospect. Learn. Improve. And do it better in the next iteration.
My X Is Better Than Your Y!
What to do when some team members prefer X and others prefer Y? Context: my team is pretty new (even if it consists of experienced devs). We started doing Scrum like 2 weeks ago and there is still a lot of uncertainty on how to do things and we are still figuring out what works…
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.
Card Colors on Kanban Board
There are many ways to organize your kanban (or scrum) boards. One difference is the meaning of colors of cards. Here are some examples of how we can use colors so that the board tells us as much as possible about the current work. Size of task One team I worked with used the following…
What is “Done”?
When can you say that a task is done? This is an old topic but still important and still being discussed over and over by almost any team. Lately my team decided to come with a definition of done. This post presents our view on “what is ‘done’?”. Introduction We tried to address every aspect…