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The Optimal Retrospective This article isn’t about whether Agile teams should have a retrospective meeting or not. There is plenty of material on that already. I’ll assume that it is generally accepted practice to ensure the team communicates and finds ways to continuously improve. This post is about achieving the BEST possible retrospective meetings and … Continue reading The Optimal Retrospective

For teams doing scrum, without a scrum master I had a client ask me the other day if it was ok to “rotate” the scrum master role since they don’t have a dedicated one. He felt strongly this was the right approach. Partially to lesson the distraction to one team member and also to have … Continue reading What to do without a dedicated scrum master?

Are your retrospectives getting boring and monotonous with dis-engaged team members? It could be that you have mastered high performance and your teams have no room for improvement….  although I doubt that is the case.   In fact, I believe teams can get better indefinitely. So how do you keep the retrospectives productive over time? … Continue reading Getting More From Retrospective Meetings

I recently had a client ask me about a metric that they started using with their teams.  The metric was “stories in progress” for more than 6 days.   And after seeing a long list of  teams that had multiple stories open longer than 6 days, they wanted to understand why. Here are some of … Continue reading How Long Should a User Story Be ‘In Progress’?