Scrum Saturday

October 2020

31/10/2020

Prioritizing or Ordering the Sprint Backlog items, that is the question

During a conversation about sprint backlog with a scrum master in a meetup event, He said he had to order the Sprint Backlog by priority. I mentioned that the Scrum Guide talks about an ordered […] Read More
24/10/2020

Cancellation of Sprint and its effect on Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective

I think every Scrum Team was at this point: because of one of several reasons, the scope of a sprint needs drastic alteration. Now, what to do? In my experience, for managing this event as […] Read More
17/10/2020

Modifying sprint backlog during the planned sprint

Scrum is a good thing, no doubt, and the Scrum mindset isn’t unreasonable. As we live in the age of agile business environments – always changing, and always adapting – adapting to change is Inevitable. […] Read More
10/10/2020

The spirit of the Scrum Guide vs the letter of the Scrum Guide

Scrum is a good thing and its free-for-all, but Scrum follows discipline too. I’ve seen too many new Scrum Masters who use Scrum and its practices as a weapon to control their team. Imagine you […] Read More
03/10/2020

Is handling urgent change requests being a problem for you?

When implementing Scrum, Scrum Masters prefer to follow the rule which is never to allow changes during the Sprint. We can only accommodate requests for improvement at the end of the sprint or the beginning […] Read More