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Tag: Sprint Planning

  • Humble Planning — Maarten Dalmijn at the 57. Hands-on Agile Meetup

    TL; DR: Humble Planning w/ Maarten Dalmijn

    In this fascinating talk, Maarten introduced the concept of humble planning and why it’s crucial for succeeding with an Agile way of working and building products of exceptional value. 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. It is a must-see for all agile practitioners!

    Humble Planning: How To Make Your Plans Suck Less with Maarten Dalmijn at the 57. Hands-on Agile Meetup — Berlin-Product-People.com

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  • No Sprint Goal, No Cohesion, No Collaboration — Making Your Scrum Work #26

    TL; DR: No Sprint Goal

    There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if there is no Sprint Goal — Sprint after Sprint? What if the Scrum team is always only working on a random assortment of work items that seem to be the most pressing at the moment of the Sprint Planning?

    Join me and delve into the importance of the Sprint Goal for meaningful work as a Scrum team in less than two minutes.

    No Sprint Goal, No Cohesion, No Collaboration — Making Your Scrum Work #26 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

    20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

    TL; DR: Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

    The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment. Learn more on how to improve its effectiveness by avoiding 20 common Sprint Planning anti-patterns.

    20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • What Capacity Check? — Making Your Scrum Work #23

    TL; DR: Ignoring the Capacity Check during Sprint Planning

    There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is an intentionally incomplete framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, the Developers are ignoring a capacity check during the Sprint Planning, and as a result, the Scrum team creates a Sprint Goal that most likely cannot be accomplished.

    Join me and delve into the effects of this trust-shattering practice in less than 80 seconds.

    What Capacity Check? — Making Your Scrum Work #23 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Remote Agile (Part 6): Sprint Planning with Distributed Teams

    Remote Agile (Part 6): Sprint Planning with Distributed Teams

    TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Planning with a Distributed Team

    We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns, and we analyzed remote Retrospectives based on Liberating Structures. This sixth article now dives into organizing a remote Sprint Planning with a distributed team: practices, virtual Liberating Structures, and lessons learned.

    Remote Agile (Part 6): Sprint Planning with Distributed Teams — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Hey Scrum Master — What Are You Doing all Day? [Survey Results]

    TL;DR: Scrum Master Duties, Serving a Single Team

    Scrum Master Duties: supposedly, a great Scrum Master serves only one Scrum Team—that’s at least a popular narrative in the Scrum community. Nevertheless, there is also a loud voice that doubts that approach: what would you do the whole day—with a single team? Aren’t they supposed to become self-organizing over time? And if so, does the Scrum team then need a Scrum Master 24/7?

    As I worked for years as a Product Owner on Scrum Teams without a dedicated Scrum Master-which was working well-I was curious to learn more about that question, too. Hence I ran a survey in late June and early July 2018, the results of which are presented here.

    In total, 261 Scrum Masters participated in this non-representative survey in the two weeks before July 5th, 2018. 19 participants chose not to provide their consent to Google processing and to store their answers. Hence their contributions were deleted, resulting in a sample size of 242 responses.

    Scrum Master Duties — What Are You Doing all Day? — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Liberating Structures for Scrum (2): The Sprint Planning

    Liberating Structures for Scrum (2): The Sprint Planning

    TL;DR: Liberating Structures for Scrum: The Sprint Planning

    The fourth Liberating Structures Scrum meetup addressed the Sprint Planning, more precisely the reasons why Sprint Plannings fail—despite all the efforts put into them in advance, from the Product Backlog refinement to the Sprint Review.

    Liberating Structures for Scrum: The Sprint Planning — Hands-on Agile

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