User Story Backlog Hell Suppose for a moment that you have a spreadsheet with three-hundred user stories in it. Stories gathered and written during many user story writing workshops. Or maybe [...]
Photo by Margarida CSilva on Unsplash We’ve got a great exercise you can use in your team retrospectives or workshops to better understand the nature of groups and explore the hidden [...]
Scrum Coaching Retreats began in 2011 and since then, they have become widespread. The idea was started and driven forward by a group of volunteer Certified Scrum Coaches, working closely with [...]
Some time ago, I worked with Lyssa Adkins to improve my coaching skills. One of our areas of focus was team start-up and the expectation for our teams to become high performing. In our work [...]
In 2015 Eben and Tom delivered a talk at the BCS London Lean Kanban Day to describe a recent STATIK workshop they conducted. Within their talk they explored the practical implementation of a [...]
Yesterday, February 21, I delivered a Keynote to the delegates of BarclayCard Agile Fest. This is kicking off a series of experiential sessions I will be hosting at meetups in London this year. [...]
I use the sailboat retrospective as an activity to gather information for Sprint Retrospectives, Release Retrospectives or even when I go in as a coach to find out where teams are. It is a fun [...]
Recently, I worked with a co-located team of 12 – more than the recommended Scrum team size of 5-7 plus or minus one. I wasn’t happy about this but, as it was only three more than the recommended [...]
Backlog Refinement and the Scrum Backlog refinement is an important activity in Scrum, equal in importance to the Scrum events. The process allows the team to share thoughts and forces the team [...]