by Stefan Wolpers | Jun 11, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Making Your Scrum Work, Retrospective, sprint retrospective
TL; DR: Retrospective Facilitation — Going from Good to 🦄 Great The magic technique to turn a boring Retrospective into an outstanding Retrospective is the rotation of the facilitator role equally among all team members. Check out the following ten benefits of this...
by Stefan Wolpers | Mar 6, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Daily Scrum, Making Your Scrum Work
TL; DR: The Three Daily Scrum Questions Won’t Die The Daily Scrum serves a single purpose: inspecting the progress toward the Sprint Goal by reflecting on yesterday’s learning. Then, if the need should arise, the Developers adapt their plan to accomplish the Sprint...
by Stefan Wolpers | Dec 11, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Making Your Scrum Work, product goal
TL; DR: Your Unfit Product Goal and the Product Goal Canvas We plan a lot in Scrum: There is a daily plan when the Developers think about progressing toward the Sprint Goal during the Daily Scrum. Of course, the Sprint Goal reflects an intermediate target the Scrum...
by Stefan Wolpers | Aug 8, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Leadership, Making Your Scrum Work, Micromanagement, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Agile Micromanagement There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Indeed, given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, the Scrum Guide clearly states the importance of...
by Stefan Wolpers | Aug 1, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, Sprint Goal, Sprint planning, Video
TL; DR: No Sprint Goal There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if there is no Sprint Goal — Sprint after Sprint? What if the...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 25, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Sprint review, Stakeholders, Video
TL; DR: Unengaged Stakeholders There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if your Scrum team repeatedly faces unengaged...
