Scrum Guide

ChatGPT 4: A Bargain for Scrum Practitioners?

TL; DR: ChatGPT 4: A Bargain for Scrum Practitioners? When OpenAI released its new LLM model GPT-4 last week, I…

March 19, 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

The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

TL; DR: Elements of Empiricism In its theory section, the Scrum Guide refers to the three elements of empiricism: transparency,…

September 19, 2022

15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams

TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Are we still on track to accomplish the Product Goal? Moreover, how did the…

May 21, 2022

Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns: 24+2 Ways to Improve as a Scrum Team

TL; DR: 24+2 Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns In my experience, the Daily Scrum is the Scrum event with the highest anti-pattern…

March 19, 2022

Scrum Questions: Seven Simple Issues and Complex Answers from LinkedIn Polls

TL; DR: Scrum Questions: Seven Simple Issues and Complex Answers How hard can Scrum be; the manual has 13 pages?…

October 11, 2021

Abandoning Scrum: Can a Scrum Team Decide to Quit Scrum?

TL; DR: Abandoning Scrum Can a Scrum team simply decide to abandon Scrum? After all, the Scrum team is self-managing,…

July 27, 2021

📖 🔈 Download the Audiobook of the Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered for Free

TL; DR: Welcome to the Scrum Guide Reordered Audiobook The Scrum Guide Reordered audiobook is based on about 95 percent…

March 1, 2021

Scrum Commitments: Tying Loose Ends and Shoehorning the Definition of Done

TL; DR: Scrum Commitments While the new Scrum Guide is less prescriptive and more inclusive, it also ties loose ends…

January 15, 2021

Scrum Guide 2020 — The Development Team Is Dead; Long Live the Scrum Team!

TL; DR: The Scrum Guide 2020 The Scrum Guide 2020 is available now: Change is coming to make Scrum more…

November 22, 2020