What happens if you are for the Scrum Daily Stand Up? The daily stand up is a very important meeting. It sets the tone for the day and ensures that everyone is in line. Have you noticed that people have started to turn up late? Are people starting to get lazy or too comfortable? Incentivise […]
Daily Scrum, do I have to?
The Daily Scrum This will be the first in a series of ‘mini-blog’ posts, small bite sized content with hopefully small nuggets of knowledge, inspiration or motivation. Its a question that gets asked a lot… “Do we have to do it today?”, “Can we skip today?”, “Why is it everyday?”, especially for teams new to […]
User Stories: One Story To Rule Them All
One User Story, Multiple Roles When creating user stories, you might find on occasion they can become quite complicated, especially when you are dealing with multiple cases; for example back office admins, customer functionality, different clients. Lets take a very basic example “As a premium customer, I want to be able to access the online […]
How to Scale Scrum Teams
Scaling scrum teams Growing I would say that there is a tipping point in every organisation; that point where your product or company starts to get some traction and demand rapidly starts to increase. There is a point where you need to seriously start to consider about scaling scrum teams structure. If you don’t, you […]
The Sprint Review: The Product Owners Meeting
Definition of Sprint Review The sprint review, or commonly the sprint demo is a meeting that takes place at the end of the sprint, where the team showcases their “potentially shippable product”. Generally I don’t like the name “Sprint Demo”, this should not be the first and only time the product owner sees the product, […]
Sprint Planning: Remember it’s a Sprint, not a Marathon
What is Sprint Planning? Sprint planning is a time-boxed meeting that is conducted at the beginning of the sprint, where the team and the product owner discusses and decides on the work that will be completed in the sprint. Generally, the meeting is split into two: What & How. What? The product owner brings a […]
Daily Stand Up: The Art of Standing Up and Talking
What is the Daily Stand Up? Daily Stand Up: The Art of Standing Up and Talking This is a daily meeting (usually in the morning), which allows the team to remain updated on progress and identify roadblocks. The daily stand up should not take more than 15 minutes, and each person should have no more […]
Make Agile Daily Stand Up More Efficient
Use the Car Park Daily Stand Up and Agile Meetings I want to share a cool technique I picked up a while ago. It’s a good technique to use if your daily stand up or other agile meetings go off track . Car Parking Technique This is a simple way of making sure that any […]
