The Agile Daily Standup - AgileDad

When we lose someone we love, we are often stricken with grief and enter a place of mourning. What can we do that is even better and how can we celebrate someone we care deeply about's amazing journey? Know that you are loved and focus on the GOOD! 

Have you ever wondered why people either HATE or do NOT attend your Demo / Review? Join us as we review a blog post from the legendary Mike Cohn listing of the Top 7 Ways to Get Stakeholders to Attend Sprint Reviews https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/top-7-ways-to-get-stakeholders-to-attend-sprint-reviews?

What are the 5 steps to having a perfectly prioritized Product Backlog? Call a meeting with the right RATS Brainstorm with the POBAFATA Eliminate waste and duplicate effort Identify a top 30 list Conduct Rapid Release Planning

What is OSR? (Objective Stack Ranking) and how does it allow us to achieve the perfectly rank ordered backlog? Join V. Lee Henson, President and Founder fo AgileDad as we discuss how Strategic Priority, Consumer Desire, and Technological Feasibility all play a role into objective sorting and how we can balance all of these to come to a stack ranked backlog. 

A great SME is often hard to come by. One trend I have noticed is even when we identify the SME, sometimes we do not want tp hear what they have to say because they may be more right than we are. This begs the question, Should we talk about Bruno? 

Join us for this inspirational journey as Steve learns what is means to sacrifice for every person in his class.... 

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The pop history version of St. Patrick’s Day tells us we are celebrating him driving the snakes out of Ireland. If you could, what would you have someone come drive out of your agile process or your agile adoption? Would you drive out someone forcing you to standardize things that don’t need to be standardized? I once worked in an organization that had mandated all daily scrums for all teams had to happen between 9:00 A.M. and 10:00 A.M. A popular book says all daily scrums must be conducted left to right. Or would you drive out daily scrums altogether? A lot of people don’t like the idea of meeting daily. “It hurts productivity,” they’ll tell me. Indeed, for probably 10 minutes a day, people are getting less done. But for the rest of the day, hopefully, people feel energized having heard what their colleagues are doing. Or they’ve avoided a mistake that could have been made if everyone didn’t talk once a day as a full group. Or each person feels a small, nice amount of peer pressure to not show up at tomorrow’s daily scrum without some progress to report, even if minimal some days. Maybe you’d get rid of iterations or sprints and go for more of a Kanban approach. Or maybe you want to get rid of estimates and go #NoEstimates. Is There a Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow? Because St. Patrick was Irish, it’s impossible for me to think of his day without also thinking about leprechauns. I know leprechauns aren’t real. But neither are Nessie, Big Foot, mermaids, and nonfat, delicious cheesecake. But that doesn’t stop a small part of me from wishing that they were. Who wouldn’t love to follow a leprechaun to the end of a rainbow where the leprechaun would be forced to give you his pot of gold. A pot of gold is great, but what is even better to find at the end of a rainbow would be all the benefits a thriving agile adoption can bring an organization. Projects in agile organizations are more likely to be delivered successfully. They’ll deliver more value at a lower cost with greater predictability and lower risk. Users and customers are therefore happier. Team members are more productive and happier. These are other benefits of agile are reported in the 13th Annual State of Agile Report. What Do You Think? I’d love to know two things this St. Patrick’s Day: What benefits have you experienced with agile? You probably don’t need to drive snakes out of your agile approach. But what would you like to drive out of it? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below and have a happy St. Patrick’s Day. https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/why-scrum-is-better-than-anything-youll-find-at-the-end-of-a-rainbow

Many CSM and CSPO participants have recently asked, why is the sprint backlog even relevant? If we are trying to avoid time based estimation practices, how does this help us achieve our goals? Join V. Lee Henson as we discover the real value behind the Sprint Backlog and the Sprint Goal. 

Join V. Lee Henson, President and Founder of AgileDad as we explore a recent article that reviews the top five questions you should be asking to determine if Scrum is right for your team. 

There are three signs that backlog refinement is NOT going your way:  Backlog items are consistently too large and the need to break them down is persistent Product Owner does not have a clear product goal. They have not taken the time to create an Agile Press Release Backlog items are entering conversation without the correct level of detail.