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Acceptance criteria – an easy way of defining scope
Acceptance criteria are a straight-forward way of describing, what needs to be in place before a task can be marked as done. You might have experienced the following situation: you are in a refinement meeting and you just finished discussing a certain task. Now the...![Scrum does not work for us](https://www.scrum-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ScrumDoesNotWork.png)
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...![Sprint Goal – Boost productivity by defining focus](https://www.scrum-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/DefiningASprintGoal.png)
Sprint Goal – Boost productivity by defining focus
Do you define a sprint goal during planning meeting? If you are just wondering what a sprint goal is, then continue to read this post, because I can almost guarantee that a sprint goal will help. Do you struggle to make the sprint? Does your team have problems to...![Can you plan for operational work?](https://www.scrum-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CanYouPlanForOperationalWork.png)
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](https://www.scrum-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/DefinitionStoryPoints.png)