Petula8 minYou are doing Scrum wrong!Is your company doing massive plannings, including having BAs to come up with requirements, and maybe architects and their design documents?
Petula6 minScrum has too many meetings!Why is there a feeling that Scrum has too many meetings? Is it true? Let's take a look into the so called 4 scrum meetings and understand
Petula6 minWhy Sprint Goals are key for Sprint effectivenessScrum has evolved over the course of 25 years, which is expected. It is a great testament to the meta inspection and adaption that it...
Petula6 minFrom Daily Standup to Daily CafeDaily cafes are an engaging and effective way for keeping the team connected and their work synchronized
Petula6 minEvery Agile team should adopt #noestimatesHow many story points should your team be delivering? That's the sort of questions I heard more than enough when helping new teams. I see...
Petula7 minHow to start out as a Scrum MasterFirst you need to understand Scrum. Then you need to understand you role as Scrum Master. Here are a few tips on
Petula11 minA deeper look on Scrum 5 values5 values of Scrum: Courage, Focus, Respect,Commitment and Openness still hold solid and invaluable, they are what help you to stay true to
Petula9 minA Scrum Master mentoring experimentIntroducing a model I have been using to up-skill Scrum Masters with 100% of success, based on mentoring. It elevates the role and is align
Petula4 minToying with the 8 Stances of a Scrum Mastera highly interactive mentoring program covering each of the 8 stances through activities that allow the scrum masters to dig deeper
Petula6 minThe 5 stages of a retrospectiveI view a retrospective as a shared event of a team looking back or forward and investigating the deepest causes of success, failure and ever
Petula5 minRetrospectives are not PostmortemsA postmortem, however, is not a retrospective. Here are some ways in which they greatly differ.
Petula8 minStay away from Vanity metrics Commonly we use metrics to know how well we are performing. We define a target and we need to check against this target. It is this simple.
Petula5 minScrum Master and one on onesShould a Scrum Master hold one-on-ones with team members? I'd say yes! But there are a few hints to make sure this practice stays on the pos
Petula4 minTechnical debt and the Dice of Debt gameA fun and interesting way to engage parties into taking care of technical debt as early as possible. It is called the Dice of Debt game and
Petula5 minA few words on story pointsStory points do not talk about how long does it take for a feature to be completed. It does not translate in time. It is not the same for al
Petula4 minBack to Basics - Scrum RolesScrum is pretty simple in its essence. So simple that one must pay attention not to get lost on accessory tools that the community built aro