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MARCH 11, 2024

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. And if so, what are the consequences? ?

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Review 173

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MARCH 20, 2024

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide , Scrum team members should be “self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.” There is a lot of confusion about what exactly this means. On the one hand, some Scrum team members think that self-managing means doing whatever they want.

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SCRUM 2020 2024 Development Team Review 176

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JANUARY 22, 2024

I once worked with a Scrum team that deliberately underestimated the size of Product Backlog items during refinement to enable them to pull oversized items into the Sprint, bypassing the team agreement that restricted larger items from being pulled into the Sprint. Why would they do this?

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Cadence SCRUM Agile Risk Management 180

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

In this article, we will debunk 10 common myths about Scrum. Now, I'm not saying that chaos dragons are real, but I am saying that Scrum is not chaos. This cost-effectiveness is achieved by significantly reducing waste through incremental delivery, ensuring that resources are directed toward what is truly needed. Scrum can help.

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SCRUM 2024 Software Review Development Team Review 180

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When I work with customers, the ones who have the biggest troubles are the ones who are obsessed with ”doing scrum right”. Scrum is not the point. If I’m working with a company on their agile transformation or their implementation of Scrum or doing a Scrum training for their team, they’re not wrong in thinking that Scrum is important.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

TL; DR: Missing Sprint Goals Do you excel in the art of setting unattainable, imposed, or plain non-existing Sprint Goals? In other words, are you good at missing Sprint Goals with regularity? Countless Scrum Teams have thoroughly tested all suggestions. If not, don’t worry; help is on the way!

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Technical Review SCRUM Sustainability 2024 196

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JANUARY 1, 2024

At your next Sprint Retrospective, why not work with your Scrum team to identify a New Year's Resolution? Focus on improving your Scrum game in 2024 with one of these five resolutions to enhance collaboration within your team and deliver value sooner to your customers. 1) Focus on Incremental Delivery What is it?

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SCRUM 2024 Development Team Review Agile 191

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Some well-intentioned practices sound reasonable, but a closer examination reveals potential pitfalls that can compromise the Agile manifesto principles or the Scrum guide's underlying Empiricism. Why it sounds like a good idea: Velocity can be an easy metric to gather if the team uses many common electronic Scrum boards.

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2024 SCRUM Sustainability Closing 189

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What does it entail? It's all about the conditions that must be met for a Product Backlog Item to be considered ready for action and understood enough by the entire Scrum Team so that it can be pulled into the Sprint Backlog during Sprint Planning. What does the Scrum framework say about “readiness”?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, the Scrum Values, and Self-Management. A self-managing team is taking decisions about who does what, when, and how. Why is the Sprint valuable?

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JANUARY 2, 2024

What is a Sprint Goal? The scrum guide defines the sprint goal as: “The Sprint Goal is the single objective for the Sprint. Although the Sprint Goal is a commitment by the Developers, it provides flexibility in terms of the exact work needed to achieve it. Why Do We Need a Sprint Goal?

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SCRUM Software Review Innovation Initiating 180

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

The purpose of the Sprint is to deliver a done increment of valuable, usable product. In order to get there, it is important that higher ordered Product Backlog items are sized so that they are small enough to be completed within a single Sprint. See our recent article, Developing in One Sprint and Testing in the Next Is Not Scrum.)

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Estimate SCRUM 2024 Influencer 199

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, the Scrum Values, and Self-Management. A self-managing team is taking decisions about who does what, when, and how. Reached the Sprint Goal?

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MAY 29, 2023

In the past years, Johannes Schartau, Christiaan Verwijs, and I wrote many articles on Zombie Scrum. Heck, we even wrote a complete Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ! I’d like to believe that since our book, Zombie Scrum completely disappeared. But Zombie Scrum is still present in different shapes and forms. Zombie Scrum?

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Planning Estimate 242

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of blog posts we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, and we covered the Scrum Values. Self-managing, meaning the team internally decides who does what, when, and how.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Scrum is a framework, not a set of work instructions. The Scrum framework guides the way individuals interact and work together to deliver complex products. The flexibility of Scrum is its strength. The true power of Scrum lies in its simplicity and flexibility.

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Technical Review SCRUM Agile Defining 205

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, the Scrum Values, and Self-Management. A self-managing team is taking decisions about who does what, when, and how. Where are we today?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT Can a Custom Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT align teams with Scrum principles? Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ?

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SCRUM ChatGPT Technical Review Development Team Review 192

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Unveiling the Agile Burndown Trap: A Fresh Perspective on Sprint Planning Agile teams often rely on burndown charts to monitor progress throughout a sprint. This suggests that the effort invested in detailed sprint planning might be misdirected. What we propose instead is a shift in focus. Enjoy this video?

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Agile Planning 2024 Software Developers 192

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

TL; DR: Scrum Team Failure This post on Scrum team failure addresses three categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that are closely aligned: Planning and process breakdown, conflict avoidance and miscommunication, and inattention to quality and commitment, often resulting in a Scrum team performing significantly below its potential.

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SCRUM 2024 Sustainability Technical Review 208

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Scrum - the most popular Agile framework - is founded upon Empiricism , or making decisions based on what is known. These pillars are the foundation for effective decision-making and progress within a Scrum team. The three pillars which make true Empiricism possible are transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

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2024 SCRUM Consulting Agile 182

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JANUARY 9, 2024

In the 12 years that I've been a Professional Scrum Trainer through Scrum.org, I've taught many classes on Scrum and seen many misunderstandings related to the DOD. In the 12 years that I've been a Professional Scrum Trainer through Scrum.org, I've taught many classes on Scrum and seen many misunderstandings related to the DOD.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 2024 184

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

When it comes to Scrum Sprint reviews, one fundamental question often emerges: What do my stakeholders care about? The challenge often lies not only in engaging these stakeholders but also in ensuring their consistent participation in our Sprint planning sessions. Enjoy this video?

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Technical Review SCRUM Lean Consulting 195

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MARCH 7, 2024

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, the Scrum Values, and Self-Management. A self-managing team is taking decisions about who does what, when, and how. What about technical risks?

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SCRUM Risk Management Risk Initiating 170

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It’s a myth that Scrum Teams don’t plan. Scrum Teams plan at the Sprint Planning event and when refining work items. They also create a forecast or a roadmap that shows their plans across multiple Sprints. . Scrum Teams plan frequently to navigate complicated environments where new information emerges constantly.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some teams, particularly those transitioning to Scrum from traditional waterfall approaches, really struggle with the idea of delivering fully tested increments of valuable functionality within a single Sprint. But here is why developing in one Sprint and testing in the next actually causes more problems than it solves.

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SCRUM 2020 Risk Management Risk 182

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JANUARY 8, 2024

During his talk, he covered concepts like friction, the three gaps model of Bungay, intent, intent-based leadership, humble planning, sprint goals, the fog of beforehand, and the fog of speculation. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ? What would you recommend? Hands-on Agile Meetup. ?

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Agile Planning 2024 Consulting 169

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What is the ‘Navigating the Scrum Events’ Series? If you or your team are new to Scrum, you can use this as a starting point to answer, “what should we be doing and why?” for each Scrum Event. The Sprint Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective Daily Scrum - What’s The Point?

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SCRUM Monitoring Planning Process 167

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APRIL 26, 2024

For heads of delivery, engineering or product aiming to enhance their teams' performance and efficiency through Scrum or other agile frameworks, integrating behavioural insights into the adoption process can be transformative. What is MINDSPACE? Norms : We are influenced by what others do.

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SCRUM Influencer Governance Government 110

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In the bustling world of Scrum, the Sprint Review stands as a pivotal event. Importance Of Feedback in Sprint Reviews Illuminating the Path Forward Feedback in Sprint Reviews acts as a lighthouse, guiding the product development ship through the murky waters of uncertainty and change. The stakeholder feedback.

Technical Review 195

Technical Review Construction Innovation Influencer 195

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MARCH 18, 2024

Over the years, I've been asked multiple times what a Nexus Sprint Review might look like. I've not been satisfied with the guidance I've found online regarding Nexus Sprint Review, so I decided to finally write my own." Also, if you are not using the Nexus Scaled Scrum Framework, that's fine.

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Logistics SCRUM Construction Executing 173

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

What is the ‘Navigating the Scrum Events’ Series? If you or your team are new to Scrum, you can use this as a starting point to answer, “What should we be doing and why?” for each Scrum Event. Sprint Planning - What’s The Point? Anyone on the Scrum Team can take this on.

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SCRUM Planning Defining Estimate 187

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What is the ‘Navigating the Scrum Events’ Series? If you or your team are new to Scrum, you can use this as a starting point to answer, “what should we be doing and why?” for each Scrum Event. The Sprint Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective The Sprint - What’s The Point?

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SCRUM Cadence Defining Planning 218

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MARCH 13, 2024

People may not see the point when they hear about the Definition of Done in Scrum. First and foremost, what is a Definition of Done? T he Definition of Done (DoD) in Scrum is a set of criteria determining when a Product Backlog item can be considered complete. Improves Sprint Planning. Sounds simple, right?

Software Review 175

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Technical Review 175

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JANUARY 13, 2024

Are Special Sprints in Agile Truly Beneficial? In my journey with Agile, I've often encountered teams embroiled in what I term 'special sprints' – Sprint zeros, refactoring sprints, and bugfix sprints. At first glance, these sprints appear as a savvy adaptation of Agile. Enjoy this video?

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Agile 2024 Sustainability Risk Management 160

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a seasoned practitioner in the Scrum framework, I've often been queried on the approach to select the most appropriate items for the Sprint backlog. The truth is, crafting a Sprint backlog is akin to navigating a multi-dimensional chessboard. It informs but does not govern the Sprint's content. Enjoy this video?

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Governance Government SCRUM Initiating 185

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A Scrum team's work can be classified into Sprint work and Refinement. To steer your Scrum Team towards success, it's essential to understand, manage, and balance these two types of work. Decode the intricacies of Scrum teamwork and unlock the path to achieving your product goals with increased efficiency.

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SCRUM Consulting Lean Agile 190