Scrum

Great Scrum Masters understand team development and intentionally coach and improve their team’s performance over time. A Scrum Master can equip Team Members with helpful tools and best practices by learning and using power patterns. Power Patterns help the Scrum Master build happier teams that can work more efficiently, remain stable over time, and continue developing and expanding their skillsets. Power patterns should be incorporated throughout the Sprint and reaffirmed

Scrum is designed to solve interrelated problems common – but not unique – to software development projects: project scope and estimation.   Do these problems also exist in innovation projects? Will the Scrum solutions work for innovation projects as well? Short answers: Yes and Yes.  Applying Agile Scrum methodology to the process of Innovation allows the product team to define the scope of the project more clearly, identify emergent work more easily, estimate the

Veteran and novice Scrum Masters, alike, can struggle with finding a practical tool to help manage their Sprints on a weekly basis. Our free Agile Toolkit is an easy-to-use and highly functional Excel sheet that allows Scrum Masters to manage their Sprint more effectively. This tool handles tracks Team capacity, velocity, Yesterday’s Weather, Interrupt Buffers, and more! It also generates charts for a team’s velocity over time and individual Sprint

Scrum@Scale: An Overview of the Framework These days, most people know and understand Scrum as a framework that helps people, teams, and organizations generate increasing value over time by creating an environment that allows them to work on the right thing in the right away. At the individual team level, Scrum has demonstrated time and time again that it can help produce twice the work in half the time. While

On November 18th, the 2020 updates to the Scrum Guide were released by Jeff Sutherland of Scrum Inc. and Ken Schwaber of Scrum.org that include changes to the way Scrum is defined and implemented, so we would like to provide a rundown of these changes and how it might impact your Scrum Team. The 2020 Scrum Guide has been updated with simplified language to be less prescriptive and more focused

We recently caught up with Maureen Sears, Project Manager at HC3, to ask her about the impact that her recent Scrum Master and Product Owner training has made in her professional life. HC3 is a data-driven tech company delivering customer communications for their clients. By managing complex data generated from multiple client systems, they help financial service organizations communicate with their customers in meaningful ways. HC3 offers focused solutions for

Understanding your customers’ needs is critical for success, but getting there can be complex and time consuming. We’ve gotten to know McLeod Software, one of the largest software development companies in Birmingham, AL, as a coaching client. McLeod is a leading creator of transportation and trucking management software for carriers, brokers, 3PL providers, and shippers. Much of McLeod’s success comes from listening to their customers and providing software solutions for their problems.

I’m excited to announce that I will be speaking in an upcoming webinar hosted by APN Consulting entitled “Build a Better Developer Team by Increasing Employee Engagement.” This employee engagement webinar is on July 7 at 1PM EDT and you can register by going to APN Consulting’s website. Registration is free and open to anyone interested in learning how to skyrocket your team’s performance.

In today’s Agile Roundup, we shine a spotlight on the scrum master. These articles outline the role, importance and offer tips to improve your scrum game.

In this post, we analyze a Harvard Business Review article that provides input into a team’s “definition of done” by looking at military thinking.

Over the past month, the Sigao Studios team has been working on building AgileKit.IO, a suite of micro-tools designed to improve your agile team. Our first release is an agile estimation tool for playing agile estimation poker. Create a game and invite friends To begin playing poker, navigate to www.agilekit.io and press the green Create Game button. Once AgileKit has provisioned a new game room, you will be asked to