Agile QuickTip: Learning Focused Daily Scrum
Turn your traditional Scrum or stand-up agenda on its head with a learning focused Scrum. Typically, agile or scrum teams have a daily Scrum or stand up where the focus…
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Agile QuickTip: Try an Audio Signal to Start or End your Daily Scrum
Try an Audio Signal to Start or End your Daily Scrum Using an audio signal at the beginning or the end of your daily Scrum could help define precisely when…
Agile QuickTip: The Sprint Planning Mini Retro
The Sprint Planning Mini Retro You could be making Sprint Planning far more effective by including a mini retrospective at the end of it. Sprint planning is the opening ceremony…
Agile QuickTip: Limit Your Agile Teams Product Backlog
Limit Your Agile Teams Product Backlog Limiting the number of items on your product backlog might make your product owner, and in fact your entire Scrum team, more focused. Many…
Agile QuickTip: Avoid Starting Sprints on Mondays or Fridays
Avoid Starting Sprints on Mondays or Fridays Sometimes a small change can make a big difference. Starting sprints on days other than Mondays and Fridays can make your scrum more…
Agile Quicktip: Budgeting Your Scrum Update Times
Have you ever considered that budgeting time for each team member to give their daily updates might make your daily Scrum more valuable? One thing that a lot of scrum…
Agile QuickTip: A Minute of Fun
A Minute of Scrum Fun Set your Scrum apart with a minute of fun! Many scrum or agile teams find their daily Scrum or stand up can become a little…
Agile QuickTip: Teach your Team to W.A.I.T
Teach your Team to W.A.I.T If you’re the scrum master of an agile scrum team and you find that those daily scrum meetings are taking longer than you want, or…
Agile QuickTip: Schedule Sync Time Before the Daily Scrum
Have you considered how ensuring you have some sync time scheduled before your daily scrum might make for an overall better stand up? One of the constant challenges for agile…
Agile QuickTip: Don’t Show Up At All
It may sound counter-intuitive, but if you’re a ScrumMaster, you might be able to improve your daily scrum or daily standup by not showing up at all. If you’re the…
