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 […]
Product Tech Terms: Mob Programming
What is Mob Programming Mob programming, as mobprgramming.org states: “All the brilliant people working on the same thing, at the same time, in the same place and at the same computer” And as the name suggests, Mob Programming is an approach in software development where the whole team works on the same thing. This is […]
Team Onboarding Tip: Welcoming New Members with Notes
Onboarding Team Members This is something I have thought about a lot when new people join my team. I think its important for new team members to get the best on-boarding experience as possible. They should be made to feel as part of the team as quickly as possible and felt welcomed and needed. After […]
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 […]
Product Delivery Process: What’s your Cycle Time?
Improve your work process I have seen many different ways that people manage their work flow and product delivery process. By this I mean how you get something from idea to delivered in production, and the steps in between. How do you track these steps and how does everyone keep in line. I think the […]
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, […]
Agile Team Organisation: Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds
Agile Team Organisation: Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds There is a growing trend around agile company organisation reorganisation with Agile and Scrum. A structure made popular by the Spotify model, converting your organisation into Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds. Why Reorganise? Obviously building a product that is flexible, high quality and that can react to market […]
Tips for Distributed Team: The Live Window
The Live Window See your scrum distributed team in real-time. It happens quite a lot these days; scrum teams are often distributed across various locations. In one of my previous companies my team were split between two locations. This obviously brings many complications such as communication, meetings, collaboration and team building. There are many tools […]
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 […]
