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ScrumMaster Tales – Overtime on a Scrum Team is an Unhealthy Sign
The ScrumMaster Tales is a series of stories about ScrumMaster John who attended one of my courses. He is the ScrumMaster for the WorldsSmallestOnlineBookstore. Things have been going well for our...
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ScrumMaster Tales – Product Backlog Refinement in Action
The ScrumMaster Tales is a series of stories about ScrumMaster John who attended one of my courses. He is the ScrumMaster for the WorldsSmallestOnlineBookstore. Learning from past mistakes, Product...
View ArticleScrum in a Nutshell or 5 minutes to learn scrum
Heard the buzz about Scrum want to learn more? Want to get a sense of what it is and why some teams choose to use it? I’m giving a presentation “Scrum in a Nutshell” at BarCamp2 in Ottawa on Saturday....
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ScrumMaster Tales – Learning How to Estimate
Product Owner Sue has learned from her past mistakes (See Not Ready for Planning) and she now holds Backlog Grooming/Refinement Sessions whenever she has enough Stories to be worth Estimating...
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Learning Scrum Through Games – Goldilocks Iteration II
Last year I created a short session – Learning Scrum Through Games – to help people explore the basics of Scrum in a one hour format. This year I rewrote it and took it to both Agile Tour Toronto and...
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ScrumMaster Tales: Technical User Stories or The Team Try to Pull a Fast One...
While working on the FedEx 2-day shipment story Martin discovers some very crufty code in the Foobar class. He doesn’t need to work in the class to complete the story, nor can he see it causing any...
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Learning Story Mapping Through Exercises
Attendees in Kitchener Waterloo – collaborating on building their Story Maps. Story Mapping is a simple tool to help you visualize your Product Backlog. The traditional Product Backlog in Scrum is a...
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Definition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria
Definition of “Done” The ScrumGuide says that: “When a Product Backlog item or an Increment is described as ‘Done’, everyone must understand what ‘Done’ means.” I can promise you, that sentence and the...
View ArticleScrum by Example – Product Backlog Refinement in Action
In Scrum, Product Backlog Refinement is an essential meeting of the Product Owner and the Development Team to gain clarity and a shared understanding of what needs to be done through discussion and...
View ArticleDefinition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria
One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria, and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance...
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