Core Scrum CHECKLIST – Doing real scrum?

Core Scrum CHECKLIST – Doing real scrum?

The core scrum checklist is an easy way to find out, whether you are really doing scrum. When I started in my new team we had all the scrum events in place – sprint planning, daily standup, demo session, retrospective meeting. But it turned out we were still...
Traditional vs empirical process

Traditional vs empirical process

What are the differences when you implement a project using the traditional approach vs an empirical way of working? During a scrum workshop, which I attended recently, this question has been answered in a very descriptive and visualized way, which I want to share...
Agile Product ownership in a nutshell

Agile Product ownership in a nutshell

How would you explain to your grandmother what an agile team is and how it works? For that I found a very nice video, which explains all the different artefacts, roles and concepts of how an agile teams works. The video has been published by Henrik Kniberg, an agile...
Start-Stop-Continue Retrospective

Start-Stop-Continue Retrospective

Reading Time: 4 minutes Is your team bored with the way you do your retrospective meeting? Is it always the same after every sprint? Then why don´t you try something new? I recently found a nice article from Mike Cohn about a format of sprint retrospectives, which I...
The 5 levels of team dysfunctions

The 5 levels of team dysfunctions

I recently attended a scrum master training, where we were discussing the five dysfunctions of a team. This model has been introduced by Patrick Lencioni and it explores the dynamics of teams. The model describes in a pyramid the five dysfunctions of teams and offers...