Posts tagged with: Scrum

Re-Read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 15, Chapter 15: The Sprint Retrospective

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

Re-Read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 14, Chapter 14: The Sprint Review

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

SPaMCAST 650 – Work Entry Patterns, Many Types of User Stories, Essays and Conversations

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 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

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 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

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 5: Chapter 5 – The Product Backlog

Chapter 5 of  Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller addresses the product backlog. The authors start this chapter with a great... Read More

Chapter 3 – Breaking Bad Scrum with a Value-Driven Approach

Today we dive into Chapter 3 of  Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, published in 2020 by The Pragmatic Programmers. You... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 2: A Brief Introduction To Scrum, and Why Scrum Goes Bad

Today we dive into the main part of Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, published in 2020 by The Pragmatic Programmers. ... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 1, Logistics and Front Matter

Today we begin the re-read of Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, published in 2020 by The Pragmatic Programmers. I interviewed... Read More