Meetings

While the demo itself is the most prominent part of a sprint review, running an effective review …

Poorly attended sprint reviews cause real problems. Fortunately there are easy fixes.

Succeeding with Scrum is easier when you know when and why to conduct each of the Scrum events …

Recapping our agile podcast’s initial launch series of topics

How do you effectively facilitate a daily scrum with a remote team?

It can be very tempting to schedule a week without any meetings. But there are better ideas.

For many teams, the sprint review has run its course and it’s time to stop doing them.

Blasphemy? …

Do Scrum long enough and someone will suggest stopping the daily scrums. Here’s how to reply.

It can sometimes be a challenge to get people to attend and then participate in sprint reviews. …

Your team is probably spending too much time in sprint planning meetings. Here’s how to spend less …

Succeeding with agile isn’t just about knowing where to start, it’s about knowing where to go …

Traditionally managed projects begin with a kickoff meeting. Here’s why and how agile projects can …

Some agile teams ban certain roles from daily scrums and retrospectives. Here’s why everyone should …

Are teams complaining about Scrum meetings? Learn why that happens, and how to fix it.

Read this special Halloween post about five things in agile transitions that are can seem as scary …

When one person cannot attend one of Scrum’s meetings, the best thing is almost always to conduct …

Some teams use the sprint review as a time for product owners or key stakeholders to formally …

I recently emailed everyone who subscribes to my weekly tips a list of suggestions for ways to …

There are many ways you can run a sprint retrospective. Here’s the simplest way and still my favorite.

It’s July—find something to celebrate with your team. Unless your “down under,” you’re probably …

Learn about product backlog refinement: how, when, and why the agile team and product owner refine …

In the following guest post, Lisa Crispin argues the benefits of scheduling anything that's important.

On the first day of my Certified ScrumMaster course, we go over the agenda for the two days. I …

It's May, and we're well into spring now. If you're like me, you haven't yet done your annual …

You may have heard Scrum is one of the leading agile software development processes. With more than …

In last month's newsletter I wrote about the idea that everything happens within a sprint. There is …

Even if you've taken the often stated agile stance of getting rid of periodic performance reviews …

I was recently interviewed for an upcoming agile textbook written by Sondra Ashmore and Kristin …

I've always been envious of those with nice handwriting or even distinctive printing. I've always …

One of my favorite things to hear about during this part of a daily scrum is how team members in a …

If you do want to take notes, I recommend writing the note on a whiteboard or some place where …

The book is a comprehensive overview of Scrum. It goes from the principles of agile through the …

The early agile literature was adamant about two things: stick with small teams and put everyone in …

I'm trying to create a list of the biggest, most common, or hardest to overcome agile problems that …

It is possible for risk management and agile project management to coexist on projects that need to …

Not everyone involved in an agile transition wants the change to be successful. This …

Sprint planning meetings typically go into deeper detail than is appropriate for product backlog …

The scrum of scrums meeting is an important technique in scaling Scrum to large project teams. …

Many teams try to divide and conquer when it comes to sprint planning, often with disjointed and …

Excellent advice for those desiring more frequent, shorter, better retrospectives.

One of the …

A challenge faced by any project leader is how to lead the team without resorting to a …

Too much work goes into use cases to not employ them to their full potential. By assigning points …

Projects fail for a plethora of reasons; one article could not hope to address all of them. …

Multitasking makes us feel more productive, but in truth trying to take on more than two tasks …

This article was written for the Scrum Alliance soapbox. It presents an initial collection of Scrum …

The transition from a plan-driven to an agile process affects not only the development team …

This article describes how a project was successfully downsized from 100 to 12 developers. To make …

This is the book I’ve been wanted for years. Until this book, the Scrum development process was not …