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01-02-2019

How to be effective in an online meeting

For years now, I have been leading online meetings for the Leadership Circle, the Aspiring Ambassadors of Scrum and of course many sprint plannings and reviews. […]
12-09-2014

Pair & Share – a simple technique for Sprint Planning

How do you get the team to plan tasks effectively? The second half of sprint planning is often a challenge for teams starting Scrum. It used […]
24-12-2011

In Praise of Slack

One of the oldest questions in Scrum is, ‘to how much work should a team commit each sprint?’ The standard answer is, ‘as much as the […]
04-02-2011

How we do Sprint Planning 2

Many people think Sprint Planning 2 (the second half of the Sprint Planning meeting) is just about creating and estimating the list of tasks for the […]
23-07-2010

Eight Strategies for Achieving the Scrum Sprint Commitment

I just finished leading an in-house Scrum Product Owner course with a group of 6 actual or future product owners. One of their most pressing issues […]