Category: Scrum 101
Stakeholder Top 3
Part of the role of a Product Owner is representing the needs of stakeholders to the Scrum Team. Understanding the priorities and concerns of your stakeholders can be a challenge. Synthesizing the input from several stakeholders (who likely don’t all agree with one another) is an even bigger challenge. Going a step further and connecting…
The Increment: The #1 most important thing you’re missing about Scrum
One of the most common problems we see when teams and companies are using Scrum is that they don’t get the results they’re looking for and have no visibility into progress. In my experience this comes from one thing and one thing alone. They are not producing usable increments each and every Sprint. There are…
What is a Scrum Manager? 5 ways a Scrum Master and a manager are similar
What is a Scrum Manager? A traditional people manager and a Scrum Master may have different titles and responsibilities including direct reporting relationships, but they share many other similarities when it comes to successfully leading and guiding a team. The ability to influence without authority is an important part of being a people manager, but…
Intro to Scrum (16 of 16): What is the Increment and the Definition of Done?
What is an Increment? Does it always have to be releasable? Does it always need to be related in a Sprint? How does the Definition of Done relate to the increment? What is the Increment and the Definition of Done?
Intro to Scrum (15 of 16): What is the Sprint Backlog and Sprint Goal?
Who makes and maintains the Sprint Backlog? Who Creates the Sprint Goal? What is the Sprint Backlog and Sprint Goal? Find out in this vlog!