Scrum Under Siege

Scrum Under Siege

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Scrum Under Siege episodes

  • Stop the solutioning
    Scrum Under Siege scores Story Mapping on a scale of 1 to 10 as an 11. We love it. Story Mapping is a discovery session and any time you get people in a room together tasked with discovery, sometimes the conversations get out of hand. Listen to this short podcast about how to avoid some unneeded conversations.
    10 min
  • Personality Disorder
    Personas are super useful for creating story maps. They help you flush out what some hidden value when your team is building the map. Doug and Jack talk about how to avoid some of the pitfalls you can slip into when creating personas.
    10 min
  • Roadmap Estimating

    Product Owners should have a roadmap to help get funding and let the organization know what they plan on doing. Good roadmaps need to be somewhat realistic. So how do you make a realistic roadmap? You need to figure out some t-shirt sizing for the future work. Doug and Jack share some thoughts on how to do this.

    11 min
  • Team Estimates
    When team work is dream work, estimating is easy. When there is a decent difference of opinion, the waters get a little muddy. We give a few tips on what to do when team estimating runs into a few snags.
    11 min
  • Battle of the Estimates
    Ever wonder what estimating technique is better between: Fibonacci, T-shirt sizing & no estimates? We give you our own opinions on what might be the right technique for your team.
    10 min
  • Time waits for no one
    Agile coaches do not teach story estimating using hours yet the moment the agile coach moves on, everybody forgets what they are taught and starts estimating in hours thinking this will be a key to success. Thats a mistake. Listen to Doug and Jack describe why hour estimates are bad news.
    11 min
  • Sticky Note Retro
    Retros have lots of value in agile and are often overlooked as a ho-hum ceremony. There are a few things that can creep into your retro to make them ho-hum. Listen to the fellas give some solutions to some common retro problems.
    12 min
  • Lazy Refinement
    In theory, refinement sessions go great. Everybody attends and actively participates. Sometimes things don't go according to plan. What do you do? Listen to some problems that can occur and how to deal with them.
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    12 min
  • Super Important Agile Things
    Agile is a simple wonderful concept that get mired down in all sorts of corporate nonsense. Here are few no brainer ideas that one can easily implement to make things go a lot smoother.
    2 min

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Come learn about what Agile coaches don't tell you in the real world. We will give you pointers to make your own Scrum teams better.