Techniques for improving the daily sync What is the daily sync about? The Daily sync is considered as the “event for the development team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours” within the Scrum guide provided by Scrum.org. For Martin Fowler the “Daily stand-up meetings have become a ritual of many agile…
Techniques for improving Product Backlog refinement in Scrum What is the Product Backlog refinement about? The Product Backlog refinement is considered as the “act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the product backlog” within the Scrum guide provided by Scrum.org. When is Product Backlog refinement held? It really depends; given that it’s…
Techniques for improving the Sprint Planning in Scrum What is the Sprint Planning for? It’s the event for planning what the team has forecasted to complete for the customer by the end of the iteration. It’s also the time for the team to set the sprint goal, and to discus and agree upon the sprint…
Techniques for improving the Sprint review in Scrum In my workbook Forming Agile Teams, I have documented several techniques to help ScrumMasters help Agile teams improve at the sprint review. Here is an introduction to what this ceremony is about, when it occurs, who participates and some techniques to master it. What is the Sprint…
Sense, observe, fell, acknowledge, connect, serve, help, listen, understand and facilitate; words that are present in my daily work as an Agile Coach/Scrum Master. I consider my work to be art; the art of interconnecting people by helping them to interact and by creating safe environments to allow collaboration. How do you measure that? How…
My friend Tom Agile likes playing the super hero role, so once in it; he believes that he has been empowered to protect the team against interruptions, disruptions or impediments that could block their path to success. Tom is courageous, he enjoys being the middle man, the mediator, the bond builder, but when wearing the…
Context The team is in the middle of the sprint and suddenly the Product Owner (PO) arrives from its weekly meeting with a stakeholder. He looks confused. Questions have arisen and in his mind the brand new idea/feature/improvement that could potentially bring more money/a new product line/service to the company is turning him crazy. Nobody…
Last year, I was hired by Seedbox Technologies to be the Scrum Master of a new agile-scrum team. This team was starting working in the agile world just when I started working with them. Here is a very brief summary of the context that I found at that time: 1.The team had been working together for a…
I’ve been working with a Scrum team at Seedbox Technologies since May 2013 as their Scrum Master. Since then, the team has followed the company standards regarding the sprint duration, which is two weeks. That means that the team has done at least 16 sprints so far, which in our case has implied the same amount…
I wanted to start this year with a powerful and exciting subject, something a little bit complex but achievable which is the Team Improvement Plan. How many of you guys have been working with a team and suddenly a rare feeling about the team is not going any where, embrace your mind and body? How…