Scrum

Should We Change Scrum?

TL; DR: Can We Or Should We Change Scrum? Can we or should we change Scrum, or is it a…

October 9, 2023

Definition of Done: Business Agility Abhors Technical Shoddiness

TL; DR: The Definition of Done: Business Agility & Technical Excellence Most of the time, stakeholders are not interested in…

February 6, 2023

Scrum Tools and Practices to Enhance an Incomplete Framework, Part 1

TL; DR: Scrum Tools, Part 1 “The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, […].” (Source.) This half-sentence is probably one of…

November 14, 2022

21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns Impeding Scrum Teams

TL; DR: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns What event could better embody Scrum’s principle of empiricism than the Sprint Retrospective? I assume…

May 15, 2022

27 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: 27 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns Scrum is a tactical framework to build products, provided you identify what…

April 9, 2022

My Top Ten Worst Scrum Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: My Top Ten Worst Scrum Anti-Patterns I recently was invited to a Scrum.org Webinar, and I picked a…

October 19, 2021

Hands-on Agile #28: If You Use Scrum, Don’t Miss this One!

Hands-on Agile #28 — The Scrum-Related Mystery Meetup If you are a Scrum practitioner, you do not want to miss…

October 11, 2020

Agile Movers & Shakers (4): Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with Dave West of Scrum.org Welcome to the Agile Movers & Shakers…

February 12, 2020

Scrum Accountability

TL; DR: Scrum Accountability ‘Autonomy without accountability equals anarchy’ summarizes an essential design element of any agile organization. Without these…

September 3, 2019

Liberating Structures for Scrum (4): The Daily Scrum

TL;DR: The Liberating Structures Daily Scrum Meetup This Liberating Structures for Scrum meetup addressed the Daily Scrum, particularly the notion…

August 19, 2019