A Journey of a Thousand Miles
I can’t even get away from Scrum while going out to eat. Thanks to https://photofunia.com/categories/all_effects/fortune-cookie for helping with the photo.
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Themed Sprints
Scrum is getting old. Two-week sprint after two-week sprint. Ticket after ticket. There’s always another ticket! We need to put some fun back into our sprints. I hereby propose “Themed Sprints”. Each sprint will be assigned a theme – to be followed for the duration of the sprint. Let me propose some suggested themes. Scottish
Why Not a Sit-Down?
One of the main tenets of the Scrum project management methodology is the daily “stand-up.” It’s meant to be a short daily meeting to “huddle the team”. You stand up to keep the meeting short. It usually doesn’t happen that way. Especially when everyone is remote. Today, it will be 526 days since I’ve seen
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Stand-Up Bingo
You know the stand-up drill. Same time. Same people. Same brain-numbing updates. Something had to change. I couldn’t do another week of daily stand-up meetings. I decided it was time to play Stand-Up Bingo. This HAS TO BE SECRET. DO NOT let your scrum master or management know. This only really works when the entire
Project Velocity Knob
Once upon a time, I was on a Scrum team with a business user that couldn’t quite understand the software development process. This business user would drop little passive-aggressive bombs like “we need more process improvements to increase our project velocity.” It was about as useful as telling people to “work smarter, not harder.” Wow
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