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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

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 9, Chapter 9: Thinking In Sprints

Chapter 9 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, tackles the sprint. To paraphrase the Beach Boys Everybody’s gone sprintin’Sprinting’ Scrum-i-a... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 8 – Chapter 8: Management

Chapter 8 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller tackles management. The gap between labor and management is an age-old problem.... Read More

Teams: Organizational Attributes

Teams don’t live in a vacuum. Every team is an intersection of boundaries of all sorts of organizations. Organizations facilitate teams to a greater or lesser extent. In the workplace,... Read More

Teams: Behavioral Attributes

The second category of attributes that are important for teams to be effective is behavioral attributes. These attributes describe how individuals and teams as a whole act. While the first... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 7: Chapter 7: Embracing The Scrum Master Role

In SPaMCAST 642 Vasco Duarte made the startling statement that a Scrum Master will be your next CEO. Chapter 7 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems,... Read More

Teams: Skills Attributes

Most outcomes in software development and information technology are reflections of team activities. Whether coding a new function or provisioning a server people work together to achieve a goal. The... Read More

Teams: The Heart And Soul Of Work

Teams are the most common grouping of people in agile. I do not think I have been to conferences, in-person or virtual, without being told how important teams are to... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 6: Chapter 6: The Development Team

This week we tackle the second role in Scrum, the development team. The development team covers the people that aren’t the scrum master or product owner — the group of... Read More