by Cynthia Kahn | Aug 27, 2017 | Agile Scrum
Does your Scrum Team need to Buffer Sprint Velocity? Consistent Sprint Velocity is key to predictable delivery in the real world. If your team’s Sprint Velocity is erratic, it’s hard to determine what to bring into the Sprint Backlog and to meet your Sprint...
by Cynthia Kahn | Aug 12, 2017 | Agile Scrum
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...
by Cynthia Kahn | Jul 30, 2017 | Agile Scrum, Agile Transition
Who on your Scrum Team should Perform these Core Project Management Functions? You’ve convinced your bosses to let you introduce Agile Scrum into your company and you’ve picked your pilot project. You gathered your team, trained them, you’ve enlisted an enthusiastic...
by Cynthia Kahn | Jul 16, 2017 | Agile Scrum
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...
by Cynthia Kahn | Jun 25, 2017 | Agile Scrum
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,...
by Cynthia Kahn | Jun 10, 2017 | Agile Scrum
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...
