by Stefan Wolpers | Mar 19, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, ChatGPT, Definition of Done, Retrospective, scrum
TL; DR: ChatGPT 4: A Bargain for Scrum Practitioners? When OpenAI released its new LLM model GPT-4 last week, I could not resist and signed up for $20 monthly. I wanted to determine whether ChatGPT 4 is superior to its predecessor, which left a good impression in...
by Stefan Wolpers | Sep 5, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Retrospective, Scrum first principles, sprint retrospective
TL; DR: Retrospective First Principles What is your take on the Retrospective: A routine exercise at the end of a Sprint, supported by standard operating procedures? Or a critical part of a Scrum team’s journey of continuous improvement? As you may assume, I advocate...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 10, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Retrospective, Scrum anti-patterns, sprint retrospective, Video
TL; DR: Prisoners of Retrospectives 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. What if, for example, not all of your Scrum team’s members feel...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Metrics, Agile Transition, Retrospective, Scrum metrics, sprint retrospective
TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives, Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed...
by Stefan Wolpers | Apr 14, 2020 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Remote Agile, Retrospective, sprint retrospective
TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns. This fifth...
by Stefan Wolpers | Nov 23, 2019 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Retrospective, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns What event could better embody Scrum’s principle of empiricism than the Sprint Retrospective? I assume all peers agree that even the simplest retrospective—if only held regularly—is far more useful than having a fancy one...
