Improve Your Sprint Retrospectives – Speed Boat

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SPEED BOAT RETROSPECTIVE Start by drawing the following speedboat diagram on the board and labeling with the underlined words. Also note to explain the diagram with the sentence descriptions. Sun – What went well this last sprint, what do we need more of? Wind – What worked against us, what do we need less of? Engine – What do we…

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Scrum Spikes – When to Spike

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During Sprint Planning or even while developing a large backlog of epics, there will eventually arise requirements that require some specialized skills, such as architecture, design, user experience (UX), etc. However, these items are not ambiguous of their true value or acceptance criteria. So how should these items be handled in a Sprint? A Spike is time-boxed technical investigation to…

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Coder to Developer

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So you know how to code in twenty different languages from Assembly 8088 to LINQ, but how much do you know about business processes, project management and business acumen. The following series is my personal take aways from Tek Pub’s Coder to Developer open community videos and Mike Gunderloy’s Coder to Developer book. This online streaming series breaks the book…

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