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Tag: Sprint Review

  • Unengaged Stakeholders at the Sprint Review — Making Your Scrum Work #25

    TL; DR: Unengaged Stakeholders

    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 your Scrum team repeatedly faces unengaged stakeholders at the Sprint Review? How can the Scrum team stay on track in accomplishing the Product Goal when a vital feedback loop is missing?

    Join me and delve into how to support your stakeholders in living up to their part of the collaboration with the Scrum team in less than two minutes.

    Unengaged Stakeholders at the Sprint Review — Making Your Scrum Work #25 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams

    15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams

    TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns

    Are we still on track to accomplish the Product Goal? Moreover, how did the previous Sprint contribute to our Scrum team’s mission? Answering these questions and adapting the Product Backlog in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team with internal and external stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to tackle the most common Sprint Review anti-patterns.

    print Review Anti-Patterns — Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide — Age-of-Product.com

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  • Remote Agile (Part 7): Sprint Review with Distributed Teams

    Remote Agile (Part 7): Sprint Review with Distributed Teams

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

    We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns, and we analyzed remote Retrospectives and Sprint Plannings based on Liberating Structures. This seventh article now looks into organizing a remote Sprint Review with a distributed team: How to practice the review with virtual Liberating Structures, including and giving a voice to team members, stakeholders, and customers.

    Remote Agile (Part 7): Remote Sprint Review 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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