Using Risk to Prioritize Your Product Back [...]
When teaching Product Owner workshops, I talk about the need to get a prioritized product backlog. For some students, this is easy but many people struggle. They’re used [...]
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Category: Agile Practices
How Many Teams Can A Scrum Master Handle?
We’ve recently been having many conversations at Velocity Partners about a Scrum Master and the number of teams that they can successfully coach. We have really started [...]
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A New (Old) Look at Backlog Refinement
I recently heard someone say “I think backlog grooming1 and sprint planning are the same thing”. I can see exactly why someone might think that. So I thought we [...]
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Scrum LEGO simulation agile game: Build a [...]
This is an agile game to use Lego blocks to build a product in teams using iterations. It can be used in companies, school, university and any place to teach agility and Scrum. [...]
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Scrum Master Quick Tips
Two weeks ago, I wrote up a post about Product Owner Quick Tips and thought it would be a good idea to follow that up with one for Scrum Masters. While Product Owners have the [...]
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Product Owner Quick Tips
When I first began my journey as an agile coach, I was focused on helping a great woman who was starting her path as a Product Owner. She had the business knowledge and a lot of [...]
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Revisiting the Daily Scrum Meeting
Daily Scrum is the basis for most companies’ agile implementations. In fact, so many companies use this as the only measure of whether they’re agile or not that its [...]
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