Scrum Tips Blog
Definition of story points
Story points are all about effort and only about effort. A story point has nothing to do with complexity or uncertainty of a user story.
Core Scrum CHECKLIST – Doing real scrum?
The core scrum checklist is a great and easy way to determine whether you are doing real scrum.
Traditional vs empirical process
What are the differences when you implement a project using the traditional approach vs an empirical way of working? During a scrum workshop, which I attended recently, this question has been answered in a very descriptive and visualized way, which I want to share...
Agile Product ownership in a nutshell
How would you explain to your grandmother what an agile team is and how it works? For that I found a very nice video, which explains all the different artefacts, roles and concepts of how an agile teams works. The video has been published by Henrik Kniberg, an agile...
Start-Stop-Continue Retrospective
Is your team bored with the way you do your retrospective meeting? Is it always the same after every sprint? Then why don´t you try something new? I recently found a nice article from...
The 5 levels of team dysfunctions
I recently attended a scrum master training, where we were discussing the five dysfunctions of a team. This model has been introduced by Patrick Lencioni and it explores the dynamics of teams. The model describes in a pyramid the five dysfunctions of teams and offers...
For Developers
Scrum Retrospective 1 – Setting The Stage
This is the first post of my blog post series about the five phases of a Scrum Retrospective. I will cover the most crucial ideas for Phase 1 — Setting the stage. These five phases are presented in the book Agile Retrospectives - Making Good Teams Great by Esther...
5 Major Problems With Synchronous Code Reviews
If your teams does not use git as a source control system then you should continue reading. Because then you most likely use the synchronous code review type and that's giving you 5...
For IT
Scrum Retrospective 1 – Setting The Stage
This is the first post of my blog post series about the five phases of a Scrum Retrospective. I will cover the most crucial ideas for Phase 1 — Setting the stage. These five phases are presented in the book Agile Retrospectives - Making Good Teams Great by Esther...
5 Major Problems With Synchronous Code Reviews
If your teams does not use git as a source control system then you should continue reading. Because then you most likely use the synchronous code review type and that's giving you 5...
