Recognize when a Scrum Event is successful

Wasting your time in the Scrum theatre. Part IV: Sprint Retrospective and Conclusion

Executive summary: The Retrospective is an easy way to kill your Scrum if servant leadership is not well understood and enacted within and outside your Scrum Teams.   The final Event of the Sprint – the second Boundary Event [1] – provides the Scrum Team with the

Wasting your time in the Scrum theatre. Part III: Sprint Review

Executive summary: Who exactly is reviewing what during a Sprint Review in Scrum?   The Sprint Review – the first of the Boundary Events – is a technical discussion about the team’s accomplishments in light of the Sprint Goal, centered around a demo showcasing these accomplishments to

Wasting your time in the Scrum theatre. Part II: Daily Scrum

Executive summary: The Daily Scrum can easily become 15 minutes of daily distraction and waste. “I have done X yesterday. I will continue doing it today. No impediments.” does not cut it, really.   Also known as the Daily Standup, it is sometimes almost as fun as

Wasting your time in the Scrum theatre. Part I: Sprint Planning

Executive summary: Does Scrum have a huge meeting overhead, or do we just miss the point? Part I. – Sprint Planning   On a scale of one to ten, how much do you like when somebody’s wasting your time? Yeah, I thought so. Doing something just for

Scrum language: Delivery and Sprint Boundary

Executive summary: Introducing the terms “Delivery Team” and “Sprint Boundary”, in order to help to understand and adopt the Scrum framework.   Evolution is not limited to biology. Adaptive changes happen in human culture and society all the time. It is the way forward. As such, language