In my last blog post, I wrote about why it is important to keep the sprint backlog static after leaving sprint planning. Unfortunately, much of my previous blog involved a great deal of arm waving (or possibly flailing) as I hoped to highlight the problem of disrupting your sprint. What it didn’t offer up was concrete ways each of …
Scrum is like my mother-in-law; it points out all my faults. Ken Schwaber, one of the master minds behind scrum, is credited with that quote, and there’s a lot of truth to it. Scrum is an exposure model; it’s intended to highlight weaknesses in an organization and its processes. It’s then up to the organization and its people …
If I could go back in time and give my younger scrum master self only 10 tips, it would be this: Questions over statements. Use questions as a tool to enforce process, make a point, or to gain understanding of another point of view. It also makes for a less confrontational situation: Frank, instead of …
