Originally posted on dev. 18 months ago I was promoted Technical Lead of the team where I was working as Senior Fullstack Engineer. To some extent nothing really changed in my daily activities: even before getting the title, I was already reviewing code, assigning tasks and taking care of supporting and coaching my team mates. On...
Originally posted on techrepublic. Digital.ai’s 15th annual survey found that 84% of developer teams are using agile methods and the DevOps trend continues to grow as well. The 15th State of Agile survey found a big shift to agile programming with 84% of software development teams using that approach compared to 37% in 2020. The...
In the world of Professional Scrum there are many goals and objectives: Vision, Strategic Goal, Product Goal, Nexus Sprint Goal and Sprint Goal. What does each mean, how do they impact each other, when do you use which one and how can you prevent confusion? In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Ralph Jocham walks through...
Where’s the development team and the three roles? The scrum guide 2017 includes the following sentence: ‘the essence of scrum is a small team of people. Τhe individual team is highly flexible and adaptive’. Most people understand that this means precisely one team. On the other hand a couple of pages later the scrum guide...
Sprint planning: why, what, how The scrum guide 2017 mentions the sprint goal 27 times, that’s quite often for something which is not part of the official scrum framework. In the 2020 scrum guide, the sprint goal is the commitment of the sprint backlog. The sprint goal is the reason to fund the sprint which...
What is the product goal? Apart from the three roles, the three artifacts and the five events, the scrum guide 2017 described two additional elements: the sprint goal and the definition of done. I like to think about them as very important elements, you can’t be without them, but they’re not part of the framework....
Sprints are mini projects that help us tackle our main project. But what happens if we decide to cancel one of them? The option of canceling a sprint is clearly stated in the scrum guide. So, let’s go a step back and look at the definition of a project: A project is a temporary endeavor...
What actually is a product? This is a very important question. The challenge of correctly defining your product is one of the most important decisions you will make. We describe a product as something which: Has a producer & a consumer. The consumer is either is willing to pay, or looking to get some cost...
Mastering the Stances of the Product Owner The Product Owner’s role is multifaceted, requiring professionals to engage in behaviors and adopt mindsets beyond the core of Agility and the Scrum framework. This has led Scrum.org to create a new course that goes beyond the topics explored in the Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO) course and...
“Agile software development” is a great idea that’s been overcomplicated by the publishing and consulting industries. Agile Lite is an attempt to simplify the situation. You do not need a book or a workshop to explain Agile Lite. You just need a text file with several paragraphs. This is that text file. Agile Lite is...
In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Ralph Jocham explores the difference between the definition of “Done” and acceptance criteria. Ralph compares and contrasts the two, discussing the importance “Done” and how to best leverage them. Source: scrum.org
