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...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jun 21, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Scrum Master, Scrum Master career, Scrum Master Interview, Sprint review
TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on the Sprint Review Scrum has repeatedly proven to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world, a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. And that demand causes the...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, scrum anti-pattern, Sprint review, Stakeholders, Video
TL; DR: A Sprint Review without 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. A Sprint Review without stakeholders may create an...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, Sprint review
TL; DR: The Sprint Acceptance Gate 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. Turning the Sprint Review into a Sprint acceptance gate where...
by Stefan Wolpers | Apr 27, 2020 | Distributed Teams, News, Remote Agile, Scrum anti-patterns, Sprint review, Virtual Liberating Structures
TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns, and we analyzed...
by Stefan Wolpers | Nov 11, 2019 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Scrum anti-patterns, Sprint review
TL; DR: 14 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Are we still on the right track? Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to...
