List: Scrum | Curated by David Johnson

Oct 7, 2024
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ScrumArticles related to improving team delivery using Scrum and Scrum Anti-Patterns.
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Quarterly Planning; Expensive TheaterAlmost immediately after publishing the plan reality has a nasty way of stepping in and blowing things up.
Aug 24, 2024
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Aug 24, 2024
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Are Story Points Helping Your Team?Story Points have been around for a couple decades now. There are countless articles and videos demonstrating their usage. Many…
Oct 6, 2024
Oct 6, 2024
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Spikes Are Your Friend — Really!Spikes are short experiments, research or analysis meant to answer a question or make a decision.
Aug 20, 2024
Aug 20, 2024
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Stop Using a Blocked State (Column)Imagine a software development team cruising along, work is going well, then bang! An unexpected situation arises, causing work on one of…
Aug 11, 2024
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Aug 11, 2024
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Scrum to Kanban: Finding Your WorkflowIf you are considering breaking the barriers of Scrum and moving to a continuous flow model I applaud you. I do like Scrum but it has…
Aug 4, 2024
Aug 4, 2024
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Scrum Masters: Tired of Status Report Standups? Stop Doing This One ThingAny Scrum Master or Agile Coach who understands teamwork will begin a new engagement with a period of observation. You don’t come in with a…
Jul 29, 2024
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Jul 29, 2024
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On Changing the Sprint Goal — A Scrum TaleRecently my wife asked me to build her a shed. More correctly, overflow storage for her clothes, we already have a shed for the normal…
Jul 22, 2024
Jul 22, 2024
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Scrum and Shu Ha RiI hear many people describe teams leveraging Scrum in terms of Shu Ha Ri. How that Scrum executed well, teams delivering high value, is a…
Jun 24, 2024
Jun 24, 2024
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Concerning Partial Credit — A Scrum TaleThe Setup
Jul 17, 2024
Jul 17, 2024
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The Sprint Demo (Anti-Pattern)How many times were you invited to a Sprint Demo? How many times was that demo a presentation of information? Developers telling the…
Jun 19, 2024
Jun 19, 2024
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Story Points — A Proper UnderstandingSome background…
May 27, 2024
May 27, 2024
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Sprints Are Not Deadlines!Recently I saw a discussion suggesting that Sprints are actually deadlines. Somehow this is motivating for individuals.
May 10, 2024
May 10, 2024
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Books for Scrum MastersI’ve curated this list of books which should be on every Scrum Master’s bookshelf, be it physical or digital. From building teams to…
Apr 13, 2024
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Apr 13, 2024
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The Walk the Board StandupAre your standups (aka Daily Scrums or Daily Kanbans) struggling to get past a status report? Do team members actually listen to each other…
Apr 9, 2024
Apr 9, 2024
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Count Stories, Not PointsOne of the most common practices of teams using Scrum is to estimate work items in Story Points and then calculate and use Velocity to help…
Apr 3, 2024
Apr 3, 2024
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Sprints Cost How Much?A few years ago I was one of several coaches supporting a massive SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) of 35 teams. Forgetting that size…
Mar 23, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
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A Fresh Backlog!An Observation
Feb 26, 2024
Feb 26, 2024
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The Least Important Part of a User StoryThe feature image for this article is several of the “Twelve Apostles” in Victoria, Australia. Having been there several times in the…
Mar 12, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
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Scrum: On CarryoverIf you’ve been using Scrum for more than a few Sprints it’s inevitable that you have had incomplete work at the end of a Sprint. Even teams…
Mar 16, 2024
Mar 16, 2024
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Enhance Scrum With Kanban PracticesAre your teams having some success with Scrum? Want to up your game? Read on to learn how to incorporate the 6 Practices of Kanban to…
Feb 26, 2024
Feb 26, 2024