Posts Tagged ‘sprint’
What Do You Do When You Finish a Sprint Early?
So, let me talk about the easy stuff first. One of the best things that can happen to a Scrum Team is that it finishes its work early in a Sprint. It amazes me that Teams are confused about what to do, but they are. So here goes… If the Team finishes early, it seems to me there are two choices:
Read MoreWhen Should You Start a Sprint? When Should You Finish?
Starting. It’s on all of our minds as we work through the first week of the new year. The concept of starting brings to mind one of the most frequently asked questions I receive when I am both training and coaching. When should you start a Sprint? And, the question’s inevitable counterpart, when should you finish a Sprint?
Read More4 Valid Reasons (And 1 Big Invalid Reason) the Product Owner Might Cancel a Sprint
The Product Owner may quit or cancel a Sprint at any time. This is no big deal, and there are lots of valid reasons the Product Owner may want to do it. There is also one BIG invalid reason to do so.
Read MoreThe 3 Major Risks Of Skipping Retros
Ahhh….the New Year. You can practically smell the eagerness and enthusiasm of resolutions in the air. It’s time to start fresh, set some personal and professional goals, and give them the old college try until…ah…around January 10th or so. What happens around January 10th?
Read More7 Signs Your Team Needs an Outside Coach
As a Coach called into an organization to do something very specific, say, help get teams over the hump on continuous deployment or test-driven development or acceptance test-driven development or something like that, a conversation with the sponsor frequently goes something like this…
Read MoreCalling it Quits: Abnormally Terminating a Sprint
The Product Owner may cancel a Sprint at any time. In Scrum-speak, this is called an Abnormal Termination because terminating a Sprint at all should be an abnormal or rare occurrence.
Read MoreWhat Do You Do When You Finish a Scrum Sprint Early?
One of the best things that can happen to a Scrum Team is that it finishes its work early in a Sprint. It amazes me that Teams are confused about what to do, but they are. So here goes… If the Team finishes early, it seems to me there are two choices: take a holiday, or do something new.
Read MoreHow do you fill a sprint?
After a Story is committed to, the Team (with the PO in the lead) has the option to reprioritize the Story list, and the Team takes the next one to consider.
Read MoreWhen is a story too large for a sprint?
The Team may not be able to commit to a story, or might noteven be able to agree on “done.” What to do?
Read MoreShould the team be allowed to drop the retrospective?
Of things to watch out for and not allow this is high on my list. It boils down to this rule: If the team is not doing a retrospective then they are not doing scrum.
Read MoreWhen should a sprint end?
Without time-boxes we rapidly loose our sense of predictability and the amount of complexity we tackle in each bite drifts upward.
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