The Day Between Sprints

Posted by Dan Rawsthorne on May 6, 2011

All Teams are different, but there are a few things that are quite common. For example, many of the Teams I coach try to limit the amount of time they waste; in particular, they try to limit the amount of time they spend between sprints. This time is reserved for the Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, [...]

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The ScrumMaster’s biggest headaches

Posted by Dan Rawsthorne on March 27, 2011

We often say that the ScrumMaster’s job is to facilitate the Team’s in its self-organization, impediment removal, and process improvement. This is a pretty simple, and simplistic, statement. What does the ScrumMaster actually worry about? What should he ScrumMaster actually worry about? Well, here’s what I think the ScrumMaster’s three biggest worries are: First, the [...]

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Improving the Daily Scrum Meeting

Posted by Dan Rawsthorne on October 18, 2009

Ahh, the Daily Scrum Meeting…  Everybody who knows Scrum knows the three questions: What have you done since the last Daily Meeting? What are you going to do until the next Daily Meeting? and What impediments are standing in your way? Many people are confused, and think that the Daily Scrum is “about” the three [...]

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Who is the Project Manager in Scrum?

Posted by Dan Rawsthorne on August 7, 2009

There has been a lot of talk about the Project Manager in Scrum. Two of the more popular statements have been: Scrum projects have no Project Manager, and the ScrumMaster is the “Agile Project Manager” I believe that both of these statements are wrong. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on [...]

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Evolution of Scrum

Posted by Dan Rawsthorne on July 29, 2009

I’ve been using and studying Scrum ever since I heard about it from Linda Rising 12 or so years ago. At its core, Scrum is a pattern language and it’s been evolving as people find better ways of doing things, and the patterns have changed. This post will give a very quick overview of what [...]

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Done/Done/Done/Done

Posted by Dan Rawsthorne on January 8, 2009

A few years (about 6-7, I think), I introduced the term “done/done/done” into agility in order to describe what “done” meant in an agile setting. It is now pretty established the “done” is a HUGE concept in Scrum, but at the time we were just figuring it out. My thinking at the time was that [...]

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