Scrum does not work for us
“We tried scrum in our company, but it does not work for us. Our tasks are so complex and unpredictable, that a single task estimated for two hours might take even two weeks to finish.” Do you think like this as well? Or did you hear such arguments from...
Can you plan for operational work?
Operational work is quite hard to plan in a sprint, because it is very hard to estimate how much operational work there is going to be in the upcoming sprint. The previous 4 sprints I was helping out as a scrum master in another team in my company, the CDN team. Those...
Definition of story points
The definition of story points is not obvious. Many scrum teams use story points in their daily job, because they are better for estimations than hourly estimations for many reasons. But it is not clear how a story point is defined. If you ask google, then you get a...
How to choose a reference task
A reference task is a certain task, which has a fixed amount of story points assigned, and which is used as a reference point to estimate other tasks. But how do you choose such a reference task? This post should give you a method and some ideas, how you can find a...
