Fix Your Boring Daily Scrums

Fix Your Boring Daily Scrums

Imagine Developers arriving at the Daily Scrum feeling like they want the monotony of it to end. They wish they hadn’t had to bother to attend in the first place. The developers take mechanically answering the three question format of the Daily Scrum: What have...
Fix Your Boring Daily Scrums

YDS: Do We Still Have a Sprint Review if Nothing is Done?

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Do we still have a Sprint Review if nothing is done? A Scrum team got to the end of their Sprint but did not have a done increment of product to show their stakeholders. What should they do? Cancel the Sprint Review? Show undone...
Fix Your Boring Daily Scrums

YDS: Can You Have Too Many Product Backlog Items?

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can you have too many Product Backlog Items? This comes up in our Product Owner class quite a bit. The short answer is: YES! But there are some ideas that we need to explore so that your Product Backlog is well understood and...
Fix Your Boring Daily Scrums

YDS: How Do I Get Scrum Master Experience?

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How Do I Get Scrum Master Experience? A listener asked Todd and Ryan how to get Scrum Master experience after getting certified as a Professional Scrum Master. Quite a few Scrum Master’s have gotten creative as...
Fix Your Boring Daily Scrums

YDS: Why Won’t the Developers Attend the Daily Scrum?

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Why won’t the Developers attend the Daily Scrum? A past student left us a comment in our Slack channel asking how to get the Developers on their Scrum Team to attend the Daily Scrum. This is a common issue that many...
Fix Your Boring Daily Scrums

YDS: Where does a Project Manager Fit on a Scrum Team?

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Where does a Project Manager fit on a Scrum Team? We get this question pretty often, especially when speaking at conferences: I’m a project manager at a company that just adopted Scrum, am I now out of a job? The...