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Category Archives: Scrum meetings
If no Team, then Scrum events are crappy
If the Team does not see themselves as a Team, does not feel that “we win together or we lose together”, then the Scrum events (Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) are likely to be pretty lame if not useless. I think lots of people do not naturally think of themselves as […]
Sprint Planning Meeting – The Basics
Note: I wrote a similar but different blog post on this same subject later. This one says some useful things that one does not, and vice versa. Might challenge your mind usefully to compare and contrast. See here. At the beginning of each sprint is a Sprint Planning Meeting (SPM). Minor point: The SPM is […]
Retrospectives and the role of the SM
A very bright and quick class attendee asked: Why don’t you talk in the class more about Retrospectives? And why so much about the PO? Why do you focus on the basics so much? I want more advanced materials. *** First, I actually think we do these things, as explained below. We do talk about […]
Achieving the Goal of a Retrospective
Some teams seem to approach Retrospectives without a real drive to succeed. Or so it seems. They just use it to ‘talk.’ About the ‘good, the bad, the ugly’ as I sometimes tease. Now, talking can be helpful. Still, we can usually do better than this. What is the goal of a Retrospective? Well, I […]
Meet the Meeting Killers
Here is an entertaining article in the WSJ. About the types of people who kill meetings. Scrum of course has some meetings. It is trying to minimize meetings, and make meetings better. But as soon as you have people and meetings, you can have some….umm…interesting times. So, may your meetings not be interesting this way. […]
Better Retrospectives
In Scrum (and in life), we have periodic retrospectives. In Scrum, we have a time-boxed Retrospective meeting once each sprint. Why? The main reason is to be more productive without working any harder. Put another way: mainly to remove impediments. I hear about far too many Retrospectives where we have a lot of fun bitching […]
Purpose of the Daily Scrum
What is the purpose of the Daily Scrum? First, how often do we have one? Obvious — daily! Well, apparently not so obvious to all. Some people think we need one twice a week. Let’s go back to the purpose. The purpose is to enable the team to make micro-adjustments in any dimension to land […]
The Daily Scrum – a question
Srinivas sent me the following note: QUESTION: Thanks to Joe and all of the attendees — I have learned a lot from all of you. I have a simple question — in the Daily Scrum meeting — if I understood it correctly, team members are expected to answer the three questions to the team — […]
Suggestions for a better Daily Scrum
It is my view that the main problem with doing Scrum is that we don’t “feel the music” while we do the dance. That is to say: we don’t understand the values and principles underlying the practices we are doing. In general, this is true of all of us. Saying, “I get Scrum better than […]
Acceptable Interruptions – Toward a better Daily Scrum
As many of you know, Scrum has a Daily Scrum or stand-up, where the team syncs up quickly (in 15 minutes). For some reason (or perhaps a variety of reasons), many teams either don’t get the value or take too long, or both. So, to make your Daily Scrum better, consider a couple of questions. […]