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Getting the work you commit to getting done in an iteration or sprint is not constrained to a conversation about Scrum or Scrumban. Timeboxing is common in almost all work... Read More
One of the classic issues that pop up when teams chronically don’t complete work they say they will, in the time they say they will is that they are taking... Read More
One of the topics suggested by the audience was addressing the problem of stories not completing during a sprint during a panel discussion in which I participated. The majority of... Read More
One of the most common antipatterns in Daily Scrums/Stand-up Meetings is the involvement of the active managers. Note: for the sake of brevity I will use the term “Daily” instead... Read More
Poking at any entrenched framework always elicits a response; almost all of the responses are well thought out and reasonable. In the past five essays, we have explored two major... Read More
Meeting time in Scrum, by the book, is fairly linear. A one week sprint and four-week sprint have roughly the same percentage of time spent in ceremonies/meetings. Nearly every Scrum... Read More
In whatever flavor of agile that you are doing, meetings and ceremonies are lightning rods for resistance. In response, numerous approaches for improving the scenario have sprung up. Most of... Read More
One of the most common complaints about using Scrum is the amount of meeting time. In How Much Meeting Time, we used the meeting length recommendations from the Scrum Guide... Read More
If you have ever performed as a Scrum Master or agile coach you have been asked about the overhead in Scrum. Overhead is almost always a codeword for meetings where... Read More
