How to decide whether you want to be a Scrum Master or a Product Owner?
As a certified Scrum Trainer, I generally get this question from my participants very often. Not only that, most of the people think that they must do both certifications related to Scrum Master and Product Owner. Well, certifications add value in terms of enhancing your knowledge and may add weight to your resume, you will […]
Scrum Teams should be inspired by Mother
Ever since I started working in Agile, I have been observing my wife’s way of working and how she manages my kids’ dynamic expectations with a sense of correlation of how it can be related to Agile. I thought of mapping my observation to some of the Agile principles as a metaphor. Based on my […]
Definition of Done
The “Definition of Done” is a formal description of quality criteria for the Scrum teams to have a shared understanding of what “Done” means for the Increment. This is the most confusing topic also for most of the Scrum teams. So in this article, I am attempting to make this concept clear through a simple […]
Add toppings (XP practices) to your ice cream (Scrum) to make it more tasty
I start this post with a metaphor “Your Sprint is like your Ice cream bowl“. You generally fill ice cream in the bowl, and also add some toppings on top of it, why? Just to make it taste “awesome“. I am going to apply this metaphor to the Scrum Teams to make them “High Performance […]
How to make your Sprint Review effective?
Based on my experience working with different Scrum teams, I have observed few things that will reduce the effectiveness of Sprint Review. This article helps you to improve your Sprint Review events. What is Sprint Review? Sprint Review is an inspect and adapt opportunity for the Scrum team to inspect the product increment with the […]
A Simple-mantra to identify Scrum Anti-patterns
Most of the organizations are looking towards Scrum to deliver their products and projects. However, I observed that many of those Organizations are using some “Intellectual Gymnastics” (AKA anti-patterns) to customise Scrum with an assumption that it helps to improve their performance and productivity. In fact, these anti-patterns impact the organizations’ Productivity, Creativity and Flexibility […]
Why Product Owner and Scrum Master cannot be the same person?
Product Owner and Scrum Master are the two roles of Scrum Team and the third role is Development Team. Usually people get confused with these two roles and also ask why do we need two separate roles and why cannot one person play both the roles to optimise the utilization of a person. So, this […]
Scrum guide changes 2017 Vs 2020
Scrum Guide is the official resource to understand the Scrum framework elements and corresponding rules. The good thing is, Scrum Guide also will be inspected and adapted time to time to make it even effective. Usually every 2 to 3 years a new version of Scrum Guide will be released by it’s co-creators Ken Shwaber and […]
Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns
Scrum is a lightweight framework to create value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. For any complex problem, unknown is more than known. Hence it is not possible to predict everything upfront and plan ahead. So there must be a way to maintain predictability through just enough planning. In Scrum, the Product Backlog Refinement is […]
Product Backlog vs Sprint Backlog
Scrum has 3 Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Increment. The primary purpose of these Artifacts is to enhance “Transparency”, the first leg of Empirical Process Control. In this article, you are going to understand the differences between the Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog. Difference Factor Product Backlog Sprint Backlog Creation Product Backlog will be […]
