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The first chapter in Monotasking by Staffan Noteberg is the introduction, titled The Five Axioms of Monotasking. As a reminder, an axiom is a statement that is regarded as being... Read More
We start our re-read of Monotasking by Staffan Noteberg. The book is 237 pages published by Racehorse Publishing (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) and was released in English on... Read More
We have read or re-read Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems by Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley cover-to-cover, if you don’t count the index at the back... Read More
Chapter 15 is the final chapter in Fixing Your Scrum by Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley. Next week I will sum up my thoughts on the book and the lessons... Read More
I have heard the sprint review called everything including a demo, demo day, show and tell and sprint review. If teams and organizations do the sprint review well, I don’t... Read More
Help choose the next book in the Re-read Saturday feature. I have been chewing through a book a chapter or two at a time for several years. All of these... Read More
At the end of every sprint, a team should have a deployable product increment. There are a ton of ideas packed into that single phrase. In this chapter, Mr. Ripley... Read More
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
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
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
