Strategies for Handling Unplanned Work During Sprint

Why I Stopped Using Planning Poker

The simple alternative to Planning Poker that deals with relative…

Two Common Mistakes In Understanding Sprint

And a Helpful Mental Model to Get It Right

There are two mistakes in understanding the concept of sprint (or Agile iteration) that I see quite often. Wherever they appear, these two mistakes…

Strategies for Dealing with Bugs During Sprint

The answer to the question “what should I do if I’ve…

Estimating Bugs — Yes or No?

The things you need to consider deciding whether it will help or hurt your team

Designing Online Meetings that Feel (Almost) Real

Learn key principles and tools that help you…

Build Healthier Teams with Core Protocols

A set of techniques on the intersection of facilitation and…

Recovery for Scrum Sprinters

An experiment that may help your team not to turn Scrum into an endless churn.

Many teams get deterred from Scrum by the requirement to start a new sprint immediately after the last on has ended. It‘s…

Unplanned Work Cheat Sheet

Almost two years ago I published my original article on strategies for handling unplanned work during sprints…