Daily Stand-up: Why it’s time to ditch the ‘3 questions’
Are you still asking the ‘three questions’. It’s time you learned some better patterns to inspect your progress toward the team’s Sprint Goal.
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Return on Time Invested (ROTI) Retrospective Pattern
When things get stale, ROTI is a simple pattern for team feedback that places the ownus of actions for improvement back on them.
Stop escalating impediments. Support the team to solve them.
Got blockers? Don’t leave them til the Standup and don’t remove them yourself. Help the team to self-organise!
Top tips for putting the spark back in your team
All teams go through it. It’s the natural stage where the spark of fun has given way to the daily trudge of delivery of work. Here’s how to bring the zing back.
How do I run a Retrospective?
The Retrospective is one of five events in Scrum. It’s purpose is to inspect the whole Scrum Team from the perspective of people, process and tools, and then adapt the way the whole team works (including the Product Owner).
How do I run a Sprint Review?
The Sprint Review is one of five events in Scrum. It’s purpose is to inspect the Increment of work, get feedback, and then adapt the Product Backlog. And while many people refer to the Sprint Review as the “demo” or “showcase”, this is only one aspect of the Sprint Review.
How do I run a Daily Scrum?
Many people use the Daily Scrum to provide a status report to the Product Owner or Scrum Master, and even to stakeholders, but this event plays a more critical part in ensuring that the team continues to stay focussed on their goal and adapt their work so they improve their chance of achieving it.
Big Upfront Planning is Out. Pivoting to Respond to Change is In
With uncertainty at an all time high, the response of many organisations in those early days was to batten down the hatches and the impact may be felt for many months to come. To survive through this, big up front planning will be out and pivoting to respond to change will be the new normal.
Remote PI Planning – Insights into what worked and what didn’t
Running remote PI planning for the first time 100% virtual was a bit daunting a few weeks ago when the reality set in that with the current crisis, this was now our reality. We prepared, thought through worse case scenarios and had back up plans and felt eerily calm as the day began. It was a great success and here are our tips.
Scrum Master Tips for Running Scrum Events Remotely
As Scrum masters we are used to dealing with an ever changing, complex environment and that is the sweet spot for being agile and where having an agile mindset is crucial. It’s now more critical than ever, for Scrum Masters to ensure agile practice is maintained and to support teams to continuously improve their practice and self organise but stay connected and focused on the Sprint Goal.
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