by Frank Miller | Dec 10, 2021 | Kickoff Meetings Essentials, meeting management, Project Management Meeting, Retrospective Meetings, Sprint, Strategy
The old saying goes that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. And this is, unfortunately, what happens in a lot of organizations. There’s a specific way of doing things that everyone’s used to, and it feels too...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, Sprint
TL; DR: The Hardening Sprint Fallacy 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. The hardening Sprint is one of those Scrum failures that are...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 24, 2020 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Scrum anti-patterns, Sprint
TL; DR: 27 Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns article from our series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering not just the three Scrum roles, but also the stakeholders as well as the IT management. Update 2020-02-22: I revised the...
by Steve Parker | Jan 8, 2020 | Agile Planning, Agile Project Management, Blog, Retrospective Meetings, Sprint
What is a sprint planning meeting? Planning sprint is one of SCRUM’s five events that previously used to be described as ceremonies. The start of the planning sprint marks the beginning of the sprint and the purpose of sprint planning is “to perform with an aim of...
