How to: A Great Product Backlog Refinement Workshop

Are your Sprint Planning meetings painful? Are your Sprint outcomes always as great as you want? Have you ever held a Sprint Retrospective and decided to get your Product Backlog truly Ready? Here’s an outline of a Product Backlog Refinement Workshop I use with teams I manage and coach: Goals The goals [...]

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How to Facilitate a Great Sprint Planning Session (Scrum Master skills series)

Hi there! I'm so glad you visited! After you read this article, check out my courses, latest book, podcast, and other blog articles. Enjoy!  Welcome to the Scrum Masters Skills Series! In part 1, I share my notes on how to facilitate a great Sprint Planning session. Enjoy! INTRO Facilitate: to make [...]

By |2023-04-22T21:12:38-04:00March 7th, 2014|Uncategorized|Comments Off on How to Facilitate a Great Sprint Planning Session (Scrum Master skills series)

Cancel your sprint

Cancel your sprint.  You'll be glad you did. I cancelled a sprint this week.  We had begun building a new software increment, and we were on track to get it done.  During the sprint, we discovered the limits of our approach, and shared what we learned with our customer.  Our customer shared with their [...]

By |2023-04-22T21:12:43-04:00February 19th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Cancel your sprint
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