Zmysluplne o Agile, Scrum, Kanban a SAFe
The checklist for your daily standup, part IV.- People & Company
This article is the continuation of The Daily Stand-up Checklist for ScrumMasters, part III. The aim of this series of articles is to help ScrumMasters to prepare better for daily stand-up so it is efficient, productive and engaging. These tips are based on our observation of 100+ agile teams in their agile transformations. Daily standup and People Sickness? Vacation? ScrumMaster is a hub of information in an agile team. Without big politics, team members start to naturally inform the ScrumMaster about their vacation or sickness. In reality, it is not the ScrumMaster who should be aware of that, it [...]
How to prepare for Sprint planning well
Sprint planning is one of the most important ceremonies in Scrum project management method. Why run it and how? Even the Sprint planning ceremony doesn't seem to be complex, many Agile teams consider it as a waste of time. "Let's develop something instead of loosing so much time in the sprint planning." This is one of the biggest fails of the scrum team. Well, even in case you apply Kanban and not Scrum. Why? A self-organization Yes, it is the key for the great Agile team. As Dan Pink mentioned, an authority, purpose, [...]
Storypoints, hours or #noestimate?
How to choose the best estimation unit in an appropriate time. Should it be storypoints or hours? Or even #noestimates at all? In Agile meetups, we often hear very strong opinions about estimation units. From some perspective, it even sounds like a religion. I. Religion: Storypoints Most of the people express an opinion that hours are dead. "We have storypoints in agile so let use them." But once you discuss how they apply storypoints you will find subgroups here. The first group understands and applies storypoints in appropriate ceremonies and in an appropriate [...]
ScrumDesk v.5.26 – Roadmap editor improvements ++
Roadmaps Editor Real start and end These fields are calculated based on the progress of nested backlog items once their subtask were started. New Delta fields They indicate how much late or earlier the feature has been developed comparing to plans specified in a roadmap. Other changes of the roadmap editor Even ScrumMaster can see roadmaps now. No need to wait for the product owner. Milestones have a tooltip displayed in the roadmap editor now. The ghost box representing a real progress is clickable and has tooltip with further details now. Newly created epics was [...]
Kanban or Scrumban
The Agile company can be recognized by a presence of Kanban boards with index cards of user stories which are put into multiple columns based on their status. Such board looks simple and easy to handle. For agile teams, this is very welcome due to a low level of bureaucracy, high transparency, and easiness of usage. Win win win scenario for the team, business and project management as well. But is Kanban board with user stories the best for your team right now? The biggest concerns we observed in many companies which try to implement Agile [...]
Daily stand-up checklist, part III. – Agreements, Definitions of Done & Ready
This article is the continuation of The Daily Stand-up Checklist for ScrumMasters, part II. The aim of this series of articles is to help ScrumMasters to prepare better for daily stand-up so it is efficient, productive and engaging. These tips are based on our observation of 100+ agile teams in their agile transformations. Agreements To get things working fast, regular and often in a self-organized team, Agile is based on agreements of all people involved in the product development. The self-organized agile team without a manager behaves must based on agreed rules. ScrumMaster hence has to be sure if [...]