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Fixing Your Scrum
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Fixing Your Scrum

by Ryan Ripley, Todd Miller
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
6h 5m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Meaningless Improvements

Let’s suppose the Scrum master facilitates an interactive session with the whole team in attendance, and team members respond with some ideas for how they can get better. Here’s what they came up with:

  • Have more fun
  • Go to lunch once a week
  • Write better code
  • Estimate with more accuracy
  • Collaborate

Are these actionable improvements? Will this team really get better if they choose to implement one or two of these items in the next sprint? The items are awfully vague and they don’t make for concrete improvements. It’s great that the entire Scrum team attended the sprint retrospective and that team members are generating ideas about how to improve—but now it’s time to delve into the team’s problems to find root causes and measurable ...

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