Software Process and Measurement Blog

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 12, Chapter 12: Reclaiming The Daily Scrum

This chapter deals with one of the crux issues that almost every Scrum master or agile coach faces at some time. The daily meeting has become an almost ubiquitous signal... Read More

Team Work Entry Patterns Between Really Good And Really Bad

Work entry is not the sexiest topic in agile, as a matter of fact, the topic is generally not understood unless a team has mature (or maturing) processes for working. ... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 11, Chapter 11: The Sprint Backlog

The sprint backlog is the work teams do on a day-to-day basis. A sprint backlog is a tool that the team uses to guide their activities. The backlog is a... Read More

Work Entry – Patterns

Work entry, in its simplest form, is the steps needed for work to be triaged to ensure that it is the right work, that it is ready to be worked... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 10, Chapter 10: Sprint Planning

Chapter 10 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, dives into planning.. Sprint planning one of the major events in Scrum.... Read More

Work Entry Definitions

How work comes to a team and the decision process deciding which work to start is the definition of work entry. Every team has a work entry process. Work entry... Read More