Scrum

Do We Only Have to Ask the 3 Questions at Stand Up?

One of the basics that most of us learned in scrum is the stand-up ritual where we ask the three questions every morning. What did we do yesterday? What's your plan today? Are there any ...

Self Sufficient Team Before High Performing Team

Whenever we talk about agile teams or scrum teams we always talk about self-organizing and cross-functional teams. However, is that really enough? I think the underlying factor that we need to have ...

Why do We Vary Retros?

One of the facilitation techniques that a scrum master must have is retro facilitation. Normally a scrum master would vary the retro techniques on different sessions. Most people think that this is ...

Pay it Forward, Let Your Development Team Invest on Self Improvements and System Improvements

In a fast moving business world these days, sometimes it can be difficult to remember that a development team may sometime need to be "off the tools". Lots and lots of people in leadership positions ...

The True North of a Retro Session

This is one of the back to basic scrum articles that I’m going to write every so often. Today I’m going to talk about the point of a retro session. A lot of the time I noticed that scrum ...

Scrum Master is the Master Unblocker

The most common perception about the role of the scrum master is that he/she is the one to unblock every blockers or impediments that the team may encounter. This is especially true for a lot of ...

Scrum is Going to Make Teams Go Faster

One of the most common selling sentence of scrum is that implementing scum will turbo boost the development teams. While this is true, it doesn't mean that teams will suddenly develop faster.... I ...

Scrum Agile Cross Functional Team is an RPG Party

This is the more popular article from my technical wesbite codingepiphany. Just like some other agile related articles, I have made it available on this site as well since it would be ...