CHOW #308: Aren’t apples and oranges the same?!
Upon reading the blog Relative Size – 4 tips, the Scrum Master (SM) of a team I am working with as coach came to me with a question: Why are you emphasizing more time invested in backlog refinement to prepare for the next sprint instead of spending a lot of time in sprint planning? It […]
CHOW #245- Swarming in teams
Ashok is the Scrum Master for the Black Hawks team. The team has completed the 5th Sprint with him as the Scrum Master and also the Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. The team was not able to close a high priority story due to a technical impediment. The team is not happy about this outcome, […]
CHOW #203 – Scrum Team Struggle to get their Increment Done
The Scrum Team that I was coaching, during a time were repeatedly struggling to finish the items that they have taken up for a sprint. They could not meet their sprint goal. They repeatedly failed to create a product increment. This was discussed in the retrospective, and team brought up various blocks and surprises which […]
Chow #144 – Too many incomplete stories!
Agilators is a team using Scrum for about six months now and Alan is the Scrum Master of the team. Alan has some experience as an SM for a little over a year. He has been able to coach the team to adopt the ceremonies quite well but few challenges which he finds difficult to […]
Sprint Planning in distributed teams… Patterns… SAFe
The title may have intrigued you, here is how it evolved. A few teams that I coach wanted to know about Scaling Agile and particularly Scaled Agile Framework and I was thinking on how best to introduce that in a contextual manner. The patterns I had seen emerge during my coaching interactions with the teams […]
CHOW #21- How to show visible improvement in Agile?
Jessica started a project as scrum master with a team of 9 members that include 6 developers, 1 business analyst and 2 quality analysts. The team runs bi-weely sprints. At the end of 8th sprint, she had a review meeting with Mithali, her Delivery Manager. Mithali pointed out that there are no visible improvements on the […]
