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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What happens to a hot stone thrown into a lake? “The lake gets warmer.” Yeah, true. But for the lake, the effect is pretty insignificant, whereas the for the stone, the effect is quite more drastic. Maybe I should refine the question, to get a better metaphor. What happens to a hot stone on top [...]
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The Backlog Refinement Meeting is also called Product Backlog Grooming, Backlog Estimation, and even Story Time. Ken Schwaber didn’t give it an official name in the original Scrum books but he did say the team should set aside a little time for this every single Sprint. For example, if you’re doing two-week Sprints, the team [...]
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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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A major shift is happening in the organizations that are moving to an Agile way of doing business. Not a shift in the Agile principles themselves, which have remained essentially unchanged since their conception. Rather, at CollabNet, we are seeing a fundamental change in the way organizations approach an Agile transformation. Gone are the days [...]
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Remember ten years ago, when online shopping brought “EBay” to mind? When I moved to downtown Seattle in 2001, I sold a barely-used sports car on EBay. A year later I bought a motorcycle on EBay. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share [...]
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