Over-commitment
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Over-commitment

When I wrote the “Long time, no see” post in December I was planning to resume writing regularly (at least bi-weekly) but since then I’ve only managed one. I thought I would have some spare time that could be put towards it but other things got in the way. Does that sound familiar? How many…

Is it safe?
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Is it safe?

One of the agile principles is that the team have a supportive environment; Modern Agile explicitly says “Make safety a prerequisite”. It’s essential that the team can say “no” when asked to take on extra work, for example, otherwise saying “yes” has no meaning. We expect the team to commit to a sprint plan but…

One More Thing
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One More Thing

In the current (2020) version of the Scrum Guide the word “commitment” is used with regards to the sprint goal – “Although the Sprint Goal is a commitment by the Developers, it provides flexibility in terms of the exact work needed to achieve it.” So what should happen after the team and product owner agree…