Agile Scrum Story Size for Newbies

Agile Scrum Story Size for Newbies

An Easy Way to Estimate Agile Scrum Story Size for Your First Sprint Your team is new to estimating Agile Scrum Story Size. You planned for your first release as discussed in Why Your Scrum Team Needs a Release Plan. Your Product Owner wrote Stories that meet the...
Why Your Scrum Team Needs a Release Plan

Why Your Scrum Team Needs a Release Plan

Scrum Release Plan Sets Expectations with Management When teams transition to Agile Scrum, they may decide the only required planning is Sprint Planning. These teams feel that because they are Agile, they don’t have to plan beyond the next Sprint boundary. Most of us...
Scrum of Scrums Manages Cross-Team Commitments

Scrum of Scrums Manages Cross-Team Commitments

Scrum of Scrums Facilitates Coordination across Teams Agile Scrum teams are generally organized around projects or core capabilities, where teams support a set of products that serve a common business purpose. When Scrum teams are organized around core capabilities,...
We are Agile. We are Not Perfect.

We are Agile. We are Not Perfect.

Every Team Practices Agile Differently People take time off. I’m an Agile Scrum Master and Coach to a new team in their third sprint. Newbies. I fretted when I realized that I had a mandatory 2-day class scheduled on the same days as my upcoming Retrospective and...