agile

Chronicles of a Scrum master #5 : User stories

User stories are the essence of a sprint and are the fundamental building blocks that determines the deliverables and releases of a product. A basic user story should consist of the following : Title Description Acceptance criteria Story points Scrum tasks Status For example, the stories for a mobile calendar app to list all public […]

Agile Life and career skills

Chronicles of a Scrum master #4 : Team dynamics

What makes a scrum team that works well ? In reality, I do not think there is a straight forward one fits all answer. This depends on the organization culture and the standards that has been set. The dynamic nature of such projects and products are very diverse. Each team has its own traits and […]

Agile Life and career skills

Chronicles of a Scrum master #3 : Sprint ceremonies

Daily stand ups – It is essential to have this daily event in the scrum organization which allows the team to discuss what has been progressing and if there are any challenges to overcome. Backlog grooming – This is a sprint ceremony that allows the scrum team to discuss (groom) on the user stories for […]

Random rants

Dec 2021 Post

End of year !! All about December happenings on my life long journey in my latest blog post 🙂

Agile Life and career skills Project management

Chronicles of a Scrum master #2 : Agile Project vs Product

Agile project vs agile product Welcome everyone to my second article on my exploits as a full time scrum master and my transition from a project manager to scrum master. Just a bit of background on myself.. I have been privileged to be a project manager for waterfall to Agile and then to a full time […]