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3Back’s Throwback Thursday: Atomic Scrum (“Five People in a Garage”)
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Atomic Scrum (“Five People in a Garage”) Some of the most successful businesses have been created in a garage; Apple, Disney, Google, Harley Davidson, Microsoft (among others), all...
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Managing Known Unknowns: The PlaceHolder Story
One of the most common issues for Scrum Teams is what to do about work they expect to have to do during a Sprint, but don’t actually know the details about yet. Issues like these are quite common, and...
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Scrum Q&A: Questions from a ScrumMaster & Answers from an Expert
Frequently, students leave our classrooms excited to implement what they’ve learned, only to discover that once they’re back at work they’ve got more questions. Never fear. We’re only a phone call or...
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From LeSS to SSwS
We all know what a Scrum Team looks like, right? There’s a Product Owner, a ScrumMaster and a Development Team. In this simple picture, the ScrumMaster is connected to the Development Team. When a...
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Ready, Done and UnDone Work
We sure use a lot of English words in funny ways in Scrum, don’t we? Three of them that tend to confuse people are Ready, Done, and UnDone. I’d like to explain them here. To do so, I’ll describe these...
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The Startup Sprint: How To Get Started By Doing Real Work
Agile development is all about delivering valuable Results early and often, in order to receive and incorporate feedback as soon as possible. Many of the organizations we coach are convinced that it...
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The Release Sprint: How To Get The Product Out The Door
Imagine you are the Team’s Product Owner at the Product Review and the Sales Manager says, ‘That looks good! I can sell the heck out of that. Give it to me NOW! Ship that puppy!’ Now what? Are you...
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Sprint Length: What Length is the Right Length?
I am often asked, ‘How long should my Team’s Sprint be?’ and ‘Does the Sprint have to be a fixed-length?’ I find that it’s not enough to just say: ‘Don’t think too hard about it. If you’re using a...
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Calling it Quits: Abnormally Terminating a Sprint
It’s Not a Bad Thing The Product Owner may cancel a Sprint at any time. In Scrum-speak, this is called an Abnormal Termination because terminating a Sprint at all should be an abnormal or rare...
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Throwback Thursday: Product Ownership is Hard
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Product Ownership is Hard We recently published an infographic called “A Day in the Life of a PO“, and you got a feel of what it might be like to wear the PO shoes for a day....
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Should Your Product Manager Be Your Product Owner?
Assume that you are on a Scrum Team doing development; your Team actually builds Product. Many people, including many Coaches and Trainers, would suggest that the Product Manager for that Product is...
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The Military Origins of Agility
If you ever search the origins of Memorial Day, you will quickly discover that after the Civil War, several cities across the United States claim to be the birthplace of the holiday. Regardless of...
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What Does it Mean to Scale Agility?
Scaling Agility is a huge topic right now, with many different methods available. Most of these methods are based on Scrum and/or Kanban, so I thought it would be interesting to discuss what the...
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9 Surefire Steps to Spring Clean Your Backlog
The closest thing we have to spring cleaning[1] in Scrum, is Backlog Refinement. Scrum Backlog Refinement includes moving Stories into the Back Burner and further refining them until they are Ready to...
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The “Sashimi Method” For Building Software
So… we know that we’re supposed to be developing software incrementally, using an Agile process like Scrum. We know we should be building our software a little bit at a time — coding, testing, and...
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So What Is Technical Debt in Scrum, Anyways?
Technical Debt is what makes code hard to work with. It is an invisible killer of software and must be aggressively managed. In this post, I define Technical Debt and describe some of the issues. In...
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Why The Startup Sprint Delivers Immediate Business Value
Agile development is all about delivering valuable Results early and often, in order to receive and incorporate feedback as soon as possible. Many of the Organizations we coach are convinced that it...
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How The Release Sprint Gets The Product Out The Door
Imagine you are the Team’s Product Owner at the Product Review, and the Sales Manager says, ‘That looks good! I can sell the heck out of that. Give it to me NOW! Ship that puppy!’ Now what? Are you...
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Managing Known Unknowns: The PlaceHolder Story
Scrum, by its Agile definition alone, evolves. Scrum adapts and changes with the demands of its workplace environment. That’s how we’ve evolved to Scrum 3.0, the most Agile, scale-ready process...
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Three Layers of Prioritization [Infographic]
Prioritization is arguably the most important thing in Scrum, as Scrum is about incremental delivery in order to provide value and feedback. In a nutshell, prioritization determines the order in which...
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