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Why Scrum is not a Process
Not all job offerings for Scrum Masters describe the activities of a Scrum Master correctly. A common mistake concerns the description of the Scrum Master as the person responsible for...
Why Scrum is not a Process
Not all job offerings for Scrum Masters describe the activities of a Scrum Master correctly. A common mistake concerns the description of the Scrum Master as the person responsible for...

Why Five and Five are not Always Equal
Why are some problems assigned the same Story Point value even though they seem to have completely different properties? This article explains why it is not useful to compare tasks...
Why Five and Five are not Always Equal
Why are some problems assigned the same Story Point value even though they seem to have completely different properties? This article explains why it is not useful to compare tasks...

Why Sprint Goals are Mandatory
Teams often struggle to create a proper sprint goal. As a stopgap, teams use generic sprint goals, which they usually fail at. This article gives an overview of what a...
Why Sprint Goals are Mandatory
Teams often struggle to create a proper sprint goal. As a stopgap, teams use generic sprint goals, which they usually fail at. This article gives an overview of what a...

How Scrum Teams Concuct Lessons Learned Workshops
Again and again, during agile transitions, organisations ask themselves how they can conduct lessons learned workshops in a Scrum team in the "new world". They fear that self-organised and self-managed...
How Scrum Teams Concuct Lessons Learned Workshops
Again and again, during agile transitions, organisations ask themselves how they can conduct lessons learned workshops in a Scrum team in the "new world". They fear that self-organised and self-managed...

The Relation Between Story Points and Human Per...
The connection between Story Points and human perception is an interesting topic. Why do we use Story Points and what makes Story Points a better tool than other estimation techniques?...
The Relation Between Story Points and Human Per...
The connection between Story Points and human perception is an interesting topic. Why do we use Story Points and what makes Story Points a better tool than other estimation techniques?...

ToDo, Doing, Done and the Three Scrum Artifacts
Many Scrum teams have a task board in their workspace on which they visualize their tasks and requirements. These boards often show the states "ToDo", "Doing" and "Done". The use...
ToDo, Doing, Done and the Three Scrum Artifacts
Many Scrum teams have a task board in their workspace on which they visualize their tasks and requirements. These boards often show the states "ToDo", "Doing" and "Done". The use...