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A Tale of Two Daily Scrums
From surveying many people in my CSM trainings I’ve found most people think that Daily Scrum is about team members answering the three famous questions: What did you do yesterday? What will you do...
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ScrumMaster Tales – Overtime on a Scrum Team is an Unhealthy Sign
The ScrumMaster Tales is a series of stories about ScrumMaster John who attended one of my courses. He is the ScrumMaster for the WorldsSmallestOnlineBookstore. Things have been going well for our...
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ScrumMaster for Three Teams? What are the Alternatives?
ScrumMaster being pulled in many directions The ScrumMaster Tales is a series of stories about ScrumMaster John who attended one of my courses. He is the ScrumMaster for the...
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ScrumMaster Tales – The Trouble with Sprint Burndowns
It’s six Sprints after the “Overtime/Disastrous Release”, which set the team back by several months. During the current Sprint Planning, the Team committed to completing the following nine User...
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Pathologies of the Daily Scrum or Standup
Glenn Waters gave a great session at Agile Ottawa a few days ago, it was a combination of conversation, workshop and talk. As part of the session we identified many ways standups breakdown. So what did...
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Daily Stand-up Variations
When trying to instil a new habit with a team I often find it useful to add a new question (or two) to the daily standup. Perhaps the team needs to pay more attention to Code Smells or Unit Testing. In...
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Scrum By Example – Impediments are holding back the team
The team are holding a daily standup mid-sprint. During the meeting Tonia the world’s best tester answers the obstacles question by saying: “The test server is down for the third time this week and I...
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Scrum By Example – The Team Learn How to Learn
The Team is struggling to payoff the Technical Debt (or mess) that they’ve spent the last six months accumulating. They’ve started to institutionalize writing Unit Tests (by adding it to “Done”) and...
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Daily Scrum Tools
Daily Scrum is about a group of humans working out how they will collaborate for a day. It isn’t a status reporting meeting. It’s not for management. It can’t be replaced by electronic status reports....
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Daily Scrum is a Waste of Time
Daily Scrum? It’s a waste of time and interrupts my work. Daily Scrum is just a chance for the ScrumMaster to show up and micromanage. Daily Scrum is for reporting status, but I could do that in an...
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