Acceptance criteria – an easy way of defining scope
Acceptance criteria are a straight-forward way of describing, what needs to be in place before a task can be marked as done. You might have experienced the following situation: you are in a refinement meeting and you just finished discussing a certain task. Now the...
Sprint Goal – Boost productivity by defining focus
Do you define a sprint goal during planning meeting? If you are just wondering what a sprint goal is, then continue to read this post, because I can almost guarantee that a sprint goal will help. Do you struggle to make the sprint? Does your team have problems to...
Can you plan for operational work?
Operational work is quite hard to plan in a sprint, because it is very hard to estimate how much operational work there is going to be in the upcoming sprint. The previous 4 sprints I was helping out as a scrum master in another team in my company, the CDN team. Those...
How to choose a reference task
A reference task is a certain task, which has a fixed amount of story points assigned, and which is used as a reference point to estimate other tasks. But how do you choose such a reference task? This post should give you a method and some ideas, how you can find a...
