Sprint 0 – Getting ready for your FIRST SPRINT

Getting ready for your FIRST SPRINT Definition of “Ready” When a Product Backlog item is described as “Ready”, everyone must understand what “Ready” means for your team. Scrum team members must have a shared understanding of what it means for work to be “Ready” and when we say ready it means ready to be planned…

Scrum Roles and Responsibilities

The Scrum Team The Scrum Team consists of 3 roles a Product Owner, the Development Team, and a Scrum Master. Scrum Teams are self organising and cross-functional, the Development Team does not recognise more specific roles within it but Cross-functional teams have all the competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others that…

Scrum Theory

Scrum Theory Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known at the time. Scrum employs an iterative, incremental approach to optimise predictability and control risk. Three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process control: Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation….