by Stefan Wolpers | Oct 9, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, agile transformation, Agile Transition, Business agility, Making Your Scrum Work, scrum, Scrum first principles
TL; DR: Can We Or Should We Change Scrum? Can we or should we change Scrum, or is it blasphemy to tweak the ‘immutable’ framework to accommodate our teams’ and organizations’ needs? Not so fast; don’t just dismiss augmenting Scrum as leaving the path, contributing to...
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...