by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 24, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Lean and Product, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, Product discovery, Product management, scrum team, Tools
TL; DR: Product Discovery for Scrum Teams While Scrum excels at building and releasing Increments, it does not guarantee that those are valuable—garbage in, garbage out. Scrum teams can equally make things no one is interested in using at all. The critical artifact to...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 17, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Metrics, Metrics, scrum team, Self-organization, team building
Health Checks for Agile Teams Agile teams thrive on continuous improvement and adaptability. Self-assessment isn’t just a health check measuring tool but a compass guiding teams toward their potential. It enables teams to understand their strengths, identify areas of...
by Stefan Wolpers | Mar 27, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, ChatGPT, Scrum Master, scrum team, Stakeholders
TL; DR: Creating a Personal Readme for Scrum Masters with ChatGPT Providing a personal readme to your new teammates and stakeholders as a Scrum Master is a great way to build trust and rapport while managing expectations at the same time. I do so regularly and having...
by Stefan Wolpers | Nov 25, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, autonomy, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, scrum team, Sprint planning
TL; DR: Maximizing Utilization as a Relic from the Industrial Management Past There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is an intentionally incomplete framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 26, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, scrum, scrum anti-pattern, scrum team, Self-organization
TL; DR: Abandoning Scrum Can a Scrum team simply decide to abandon Scrum? After all, the Scrum team self-managing, according to the Scrum manual, also known as the Scrum Guide. So, let’s explore this question at the very heart of team autonomy. 🗞 Shall I notify you...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 18, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, scrum team, Self-organization
TL; DR: Ignoring Self-Management — Undermining Scrum from the Start 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. One of Scrum’s first principles is...
