Scrum Saturday

August 2020

29/08/2020

Kanban or Scrum, that is the question

Kanban and Scrum are attempting to do the same thing, which is advance the state of the art in work management; mainly, but not exclusively, in the area of knowledge work and both are heavily […] Read More
22/08/2020

Get the most out of your Daily Stand-up

According to the Scrum framework, only the development team participates in the Daily Scrum. Neither the Scrum Master nor the product owner takes part, but they are welcome to attend and listen, and in fact, […] Read More
15/08/2020

Who should act as a wise fool in Scrum Team and when?

Recently I had a chance to re-read a book by Jeff Sutherland called Scrum: the art of doing twice the work in half the time. It had a section which made me think and I decided […] Read More
08/08/2020

Understanding Negotiation and Agile Estimation

One of the most import activity of each scrum team is assigning the story point to each user story. A story point is an abstract measure of effort required to implement a user story. In […] Read More
01/08/2020

Planning Poker Estimation Anti-Pattern

In the early days of agile estimation and planning, T-shirt sizes were used to schedule the poker to assess the relative size of a feature against a baseline. Though this is a very successful way […] Read More