Planning Poker / Burndown Chart / Burnup Chart
Why is Planning Poker considered effective ?
Planning Poker is considered effective in part because it’s collaborative. The whole team estimates effort for a User story or a backlog item and each...
Planning Poker / Task Boards
What is a Task Board ?
Task Board is a visual tool to represent work and its path towards completion. Task boards usually represent tasks that are in progress, upcoming tasks that...
How should a Scrum master respond to these situations ?
You have joined as a Scrum Master for a team and the lead engineer refuses to join the Daily Standup saying that he already has too many meetings and that if...
Epics & Epic example
What are Epics ?
Epics are large User Stories or multiple user stories that are very closely related. Another way to look at Epics is – a User Story that is too...
I N V E S T Criteria of User Stories
What are the guidelines for writing up a good User story ?
The guidelines for writing up a good User story can be summed up with the acronym INVEST –
I – Independent...
User Stories / Story Point / T Shirt sizes / Story Maps
What are the common approaches to sizing User Stories ?
The common approaches to sizing User Stories include using – Story Points and T-shirt sizes.
What is a Story Point ?
Story Point is...
Generally Accepted Scrum Practices (GASPs) in Scrum
What are Generally Accepted Scrum Practices (GASPs) ?
Generally Accepted Scrum Practices are activities performed by many Scrum teams. These are practices that are generally accepted as a good idea.
Some examples of...
What is Terraform
Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp. It enables users to define and provision infrastructure and applications in a declarative configuration language. With Terraform, you can...
Scrum and Empirical Process Control
What does the ‘courage’ value in Scrum refer to ?
‘Courage’ refers to the fact that the Scrum teams should have the courage to take on challenges and the individual people on the...
Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation in Scrum
What are the three pillars of Scrum ?
The three pillars of Scrum are the cycle of – Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation.
How does the three pillars of Scrum play itself out during...
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