Scrum Patterns
4 Scrum Stories We Can’t Get Enough Of
Who doesn’t love a good story? Writing a good Story is a critical, and somewhat challenging, component to the Agile process. To further assist you in your quest for good Story writing, we’ve identified 4 categories of Scrum Stories to keep in mind as you write away.
Read MoreManaging Known Unknowns: The PlaceHolder Story
Scrum, by its Agile definition alone, evolves. Scrum adapts and changes with the demands of its workplace environment. That’s how we’ve evolved to Scrum 3.0, the most Agile, scale-ready process framework yet…
Read MoreThe 5 Indispensable Scrum Tools To Work Smarter, Not Harder.
Labor Day signifies different things to many of us. To some, it marks the end of those lingering dog days or the last chance to lounge over an extended weekend. To others, it means time to purchase new #2 pencils and pack up our backpacks. To us at 3Back, Labor Day means a time to pause and honor the contributions and achievements of the American workforce. And what better way to pay tribute to these efforts than provide some Agile insight for Teams everywhere. We present to you our Labor Day List: The 5 Indispensable Scrum Tools To Help You Work Smarter, Not Harder.
Read MoreHow The Release Sprint Gets The Product Out The Door
Imagine you are the Team’s Product Owner at the Product Review, and the Sales Manager says, ‘That looks good! I can sell the heck out of that. Give it to me NOW! Ship that puppy!’ Now what? Are you going to say: ‘I’m sorry, we’re not planning to deliver this System for ten more weeks.’ Of course not! You’re in the value-delivering business. You’ve got to figure out what you need to do to get the system shipped.
Read MoreThe Release Sprint: How To Get The Product Out The Door
Introducing the Release Sprint. A Sprint with the goal of releasing product is called a Release Sprint. A Release Sprint is different from other Sprints in a couple of ways…
Read MoreGetting More Out Of Your Daily Scrum: The 5 Discussions Your Team Should Be Having
The Daily Scrum is an absolutely necessary part of Scrum, but it’s not really about those 3 questions we all know and love. It’s about inspecting and adapting…
Read MoreScaling Scrum with Scrum®, More Sound than SAFe
Scaling Scrum with Scrum, More Sound than SAFe – You’ve mastered using Scrum for your Development Teams; perhaps you are realizing you could use agile methods to regulate your organization’s priorities and products…
Read More6 Ways to Successfully Swarm
The best way that Teams can produce Quality Results is by working together, helping each other out, having conversations, and just plain ‘getting it done.’ This pattern of work is called the Team Swarm.
Read MorePattern: Agile Product Development
We are often building Products that require some sort of Feedback Loop with the Client; in other words, we need some Agile Development.
Read MorePattern: Team Leader
Original Scrum is very powerful, but the fact that the Product Owner is outside the Scrum Team
can cause problems. We solve these problems by having a Team Leader.
Distribution Team
Pattern: Distribution Team This is the simplest Scaling Pattern, often used when there are multiple Scrum Teams working on the same Product. Problem: You want to split a single Backlog into multiple sub-Backlogs. Context: This is a generic Pattern, and is applicable in many Contexts, including (but not limited to): There is a Value Backlog…
Read MoreAnother Kind of Overloaded Product Owner
We all know that basic Scrum looks like this: I like to refer to this kind of Scrum as the “five people in a garage” kisnd of Scrum. In this metaphor, imagine the Team is all together in a garage, the Stakeholders live next door, and the Product Owner is talking to them over the…
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