Use the Sprint Review Canvas as a template to help you and your team run effective Sprint Review events. The Scrum Guide defines the Sprint Review as a working session … where the Scrum Team presents the results of their work to key stakeholders and progress toward the Product Goal is discussed…The Scrum Team and stakeholders…
The eXperience Agile conference (XA2020) includes 3 events in 1 conference. The World Agility Forum, Agile Human Factors, eXperience Agile. Find out more at experienceagile.org World Agility Forum Around the world companies are reinventing themselves so they can innovate more effectively. This transformation is called Agility. The World Agility Forum held in Lisbon will bring together…
The DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG) is hosting a George Dinwiddie on September 21 for a presentation on Situational Awareness using Estimation. When you start out on an extended trip with children, they almost immediately start asking if you’re nearly there. You’ll find similar interest from stakeholders when you start a software development project. Repeated queries…
Use the Daily Scrum Canvas as a template to help you and your team run effective Daily Scrum events. The Scrum Guide defines the Daily Scrum as a 15-minute event for the Developers of the Scrum Team… The purpose of the Daily Scrum is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog…
ScrumMaster: “I’ve cancelled this week’s retrospective since we have all these production issues to tackle.” This one is a slippery slope. If the site is down, then the focus should be on getting it back up as quickly as possible. However, I hear the same arguments around automated testing, good design practices, and minimizing technical debt.…
The Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG) welcomed Hisham Faour and Roy Schiling on Monday August 17th, 2020 to present on "Agile Transformation at the Carlyle Group" Hisham and Roy share Carlyle’s 10 year Agile transformation journey from the early stages of adoption to the firm wide transformation. Join us to see what worked, what didn’t…
Join us for the October 3-4, 2020 weekend online Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) training class from Washington DC. This course is a 2 day live virtual immersive training and online learning experience that covers the Agile values and Agile principles, the fundamentals of the Product Owner role, developing a vision, roadmap and release plan, managing…
Use the Sprint Planning Canvas as a template to help you and your team run effective Sprint Planning events. The Scrum Guide defines Sprint Planning as the event that initiates the Sprint by laying out the work to be performed for the Sprint. This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum…
The Agile100 virtual conference series aims to bring the knowledge and experience of the world’s top 100 agile thinkers and speakers to everyone across the globe. Join in on August 27, 2020. Find out more here.
The Scrum Alliance is holding an Agile coaching retreat across 5 days, 4 times per day, in 3 hours time blocks, and in 2 languages. That's 12 hours of live interaction every day for an entire week from 9/14 to 9/18! CHOOSE THE TIMES THAT WORK BEST FOR YOU.3-6 UTC, 13:00-16:00 Sydney, 8:30-11:30 Delhi (English) 8-11…
On Saturday, September 12, the DC Scrum User Group is hosting a virtual open space session. In open space, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel sessions around a specific theme. For this event, we will likely have three 40-minute slots to run parallel sessions depending on the total number of participants. After being…
Use the Product Backlog Refinement Canvas as a template to help you and your team run effective refinement sessions. The Scrum Guide defines Product Backlog Refinement as the act of breaking down and further defining Product Backlog items into smaller more precise items. This is an ongoing activity to add details, such as a description, order,…
The Agile Coach Camp World Wide is a 3 day virtual event this year accommodating multiple time zones. Agile Coach Camp Worldwide Home Edition will consist of 3 open space events planned in a way to allow some convenience of where you are on the globe and still promote cross-pollination between continents. Your ticket allows you…
Join us for the November 4 - 5 Certified Scrum Developer® (CSD® track) training class from Washington DC. This course is a 3 day virtual immersive training and online learning experience that covers the skills needed to design and build reliable, robust, and verifiable systems. Over 50% of this class involves hands-on coding through sample exercises…
Developer: “I’m not sure when the next Sprint planning is. The ScrumMaster hasn’t scheduled it yet” Two things concern me here. First, the seemingly variability of events. Second, the reliance on the ScrumMaster. In Scrum, we work on a cadence. Once we determine the Sprint length, we mostly stick to it with a few exceptions around…