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Nexus – the scaling Scrum framework

Nexus – the scaling Scrum framework

by Herbi | Aug 16, 2016 | Agile, Scrum, Scrum meetings, Scrum theory, Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective

Nexus is a framework, which builds on top of the scrum framework and is designed for scaling. It focuses on solving cross-team dependencies and integration issues. What is Nexus? The Nexus framework has been created by Ken Schwaber, co-creator of the Scrum framework....
Acceptance criteria – an easy way of defining scope

Acceptance criteria – an easy way of defining scope

by Herbi | Jul 31, 2016 | Agile, Refinement meeting, Sprint planning

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...
Sprint Goal – Boost productivity by defining focus

Sprint Goal – Boost productivity by defining focus

by Herbi | Jul 10, 2016 | Agile, Scrum, Scrum meetings, Sprint planning

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?

Can you plan for operational work?

by Herbi | Jul 3, 2016 | Agile, Refinement meeting, Scrum, Sprint planning

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...
How to choose a reference task

How to choose a reference task

by Herbi | Mar 5, 2016 | Refinement meeting, Scrum theory, Sprint planning

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...
Why you should prefer story points over hourly estimations

Why you should prefer story points over hourly estimations

by Herbi | Feb 21, 2016 | Refinement meeting, Scrum, Sprint planning

Every now and then people ask “What is a story point?” And then somebody gives the answer like “A story point in our team is about 3-5 hours work for one person!” Did you hear this as well? Or did you even give such an answer to other people? I...

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