Blog: Agile & Business

“Path to CSP” – The A-CSM

December 21, 2017

Here are some key points about the A-CSM. The overall purpose is “learning to become more effective so that you can help the Team and your company be more successful” through lean-agile-scrum. If you have an A-CSM through me, I will be completely convinced that you are notably better than an average CSM. This ability […]

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The Product Backlog

December 17, 2017

This is one in a series on Scrum Intro. The preceding post is here. Intro The Product Backlog is usually the first mentioned of the artifacts. In some sense, Scrum starts with the Product Backlog, or at least the first Sprint cannot start without a Product Backlog. The Product Backlog is a list of all […]

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The Artifacts

December 3, 2017

Note: This is one in a continuing series of posts re Scrum Intro. The preceding post is here. Now we turn to the artifacts in Scrum. First we have to be clear: There can be many many artifacts for a team depending on the work and how you define artifact. So, the main artifacts we […]

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The Retrospective

November 29, 2017

Note: This post is one of a continuing series re Scrum Intro. The preceding post is here. Basics We usually think of the Retrospective as the last meeting of the Sprint. But what is the difference between the Sprint Review and the Retrospective? The Sprint Review is about the product. The Retrospective is about the process, […]

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The Sprint Review

November 28, 2017

Note: This is one in a continuing series of posts re Scrum Intro. The preceding post is here. The Sprint Review (meeting) happens almost at the end of the Sprint. Basics We gather the team (the whole team, including of course the SM and the PO) and meet with the Business Stakeholders (BSHs). We want […]

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The Daily Scrum

November 22, 2017

Note: This is one in a continuing series of posts re Scrum Intro. The preceding post is here. Scrum has a daily team meeting that we call the Daily Scrum or the Daily Standup. The maximum timebox is 15 minutes. If the team is seven people, the minimum timebox is seven minutes. The whole team […]

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The Sprint Planning Meeting

November 21, 2017

Note: This is one in a continuing series re Scrum Intro.  The preceding related post is here. Basics Before the Sprint Planning Meeting (SPM), there must exist a Product Backlog with small Product Backlog Items (PBIs) at the top of the list. The PBIs must be estimated. Specifically, we recommend User Stories and estimating using […]

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The Sprint and the Meetings

November 21, 2017

Note: This is one in a continuing series of posts re Scrum Intro.  The preceding post is here. The next subject we turn to is the Sprint and the meetings in the Sprint. First, the Sprint is an important time box (one of many timeboxes) where the Team must build working product and then get feedback […]

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The Whole Scrum Team

November 21, 2017

Note: This is one in a continuing series of posts re Scrum Intro. The preceding post is here. The team needs to be considered on its own. The team is the whole Scrum Team. Normally that would be about seven people, including the PO and the SM, and normally the team will be full-time, a real […]

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Scrum Roles — Team Role

November 20, 2017

Note: This is one in a continuing series of posts re Scrum Intro.  The preceding post is here. The next role is commonly called the team role (I am not happy with the name). There is only one team worth talking about: the whole Scrum Team, which includes all three roles. The team wins or loses […]

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