scrum Archives

Extracurricular Activities

Scrum Your Money, Part 3: Backlog

Answer a few important questions. From there, create a backlog to map out and prioritize the steps to get to your money goal.

Extracurricular Activities

Scrum Your Money, Part 2: Transparency and Ceremonies

In part two of this series, I'll cover the importance of money transparency and using sprint ceremonies to inspect your progress.

Extracurricular Activities

Scrum Your Money, Part 1: Values

When you scrum your money, you establish a framework for achieving your money goals and addressing financial challenges head-on.

Project & Team Management

How to Choose the Ideal Length for Your Team’s Sprints

Whether starting a new software project or simply transitioning to agile project management, your team will need to pick a length for upcoming sprints.

Growing as Makers

What the Process of Software Development Has to Teach About Answering Big Life Questions

Surprisingly, the process of software development offers a helpful framing for finding the answer to life's big questions.

Project & Team Management

Advice for Scrum Masters Joining New Teams

Any scrum master new to a team would be eager to introduce improvements. But try to remember it’s not about you – first, focus on your team.

Project & Team Management

Developing a Better Understanding of Agile Teamwork

What is most special about the agile approach is how it frees a team to work how they think they should based on challenges they see on the ground.

Project & Team Management

Keeping Distributed Teams Unblocked with Azure Boards’s “Remaining Work” Field

The Remaining Work field in Azure Boards helped our scrum master keep our distributed development team from becoming blocked.

Personal Optimization

4 Steps to Starting a Daily Standup with Your Family During Remote Work/School

Family standup meetings have helped us maintain harmony in our household while keeping our work-from-home and school productivity levels high.

Project & Team Management

Scrum Misconception #3 – You Have to Know Every Detail to Size a Story

Estimating work is essential for planning for future work. But working through every nuance to provide an estimate can be too time-consuming.

Project & Team Management

Agile Misconception #1: Deadlines Don’t Exist

Scrum doesn’t state anything about deadlines being communicated. The fact is, business objectives have to be met, and they often come with constraints.

Project & Team Management

Five Reasons You’ll Be Asked to Cancel Sprint Retros – and Why to Say No

The retro is seems like the first meeting to get cut from the normal sprint cadence. But don't give it up! Everybody benefits, whether they know it or not.