In 2008, I became a Scrum Master at a large Dutch Bank. I was sent to Scrum training and I learned how to 'read' and adopt the Scrum Guide. During my journey as a Scrum Master, I worked with different teams (distributed and local) in organizations big & small. Last year, I decided to become a Professional Scrum Trainer and it was during that grueling track that I again learned more about Scrum, and myths got busted and misconceptions were unraveled.
In this talk I will reflect back on my experiences and share five things I have learned about Daily Scrums, Done, Sprint Goal(s), Sprint Reviews and myths.
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
DAILY SCRUM - ANTI PATTERNS
▸ Status update
▸ Talking about random stuff
▸ Forgetting about Sprint Goal
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
DAILY SCRUM - TIPS
▸ Sprint Goal
▸ The Development Team attends
▸ 20 second rule
▸ Spark conversation
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
DAILY SCRUM
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Elsa
Queen
Kris
Olav
Anna
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
SPRINT GOAL - ANTI PATTERNS
▸ A list of items to do
▸ Too specific
▸ It’s not helping to focus
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
SPRINT GOAL- TIPS
▸ There can be only one
▸ Use the Sprint Goal to inspect and
adapt during the Sprint
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
GETTING TO DONE- ANTI PATTERNS
▸ Lack of collaboration and/or TEAM
owernship (I, you, she/he, them)
▸ Impediments are not removed:
▸ Technical
▸ Dependencies
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
GETTING TO DONE - TIPS
▸ Shift language to ‘WE’
▸ Potentially shippable increment:
releasing should be business
decision
▸ Take small steps at a time
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
SPRINT REVIEW - ANTI PATTERNS
▸ It’s only a show case: a
demonstration and status update
▸ No stakeholders
▸ Not collecting feedback
▸ Not looking forward
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
SPRINT REVIEW - TIPS
▸ Look backwards to look forwards
▸ Invite stakeholders
▸ Collaborate to collect feedback
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
SCRUM SAYS… USER STORIES
▸ User story everything
▸ Forgetting about the user
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
SCRUM SAYS… STORY POINTS & VELOCITY
▸ Chasing story points
▸ Out of context
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
SCRUM SAYS… ALL THE MEETINGS
▸ Not understanding purpose
▸ Long meetings
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5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SCRUM WHILE BECOMING A TRAINER
SCRUM SAYS… - TIPS
▸ Choose the right practices
▸ Understand purpose of each
meeting: go in with an agenda and
clear purpose
▸ Look into estimating techniques
that suit the team and help you
forecast (planning poker, T-shirt
sizing, ordering by size, Monte
Carlo simulations)