December 2021

A collection of posts from December 2021:

• Time tracking on a team using the Scrum framework.

• Short iterations in Agile Software Development.

• Predicting the number of iterations needed to deliver a software product.

• Scheduling the Scrum events out of order.

• Scheduling the Scrum events for a globally distributed team.

• Switching to weekly retrospectives within a two-week cadence

• Product Owner participating in retrospective activities.

• The advantages of having a singular Sprint Goal.

• Including UX design work in a Scrum Team's Sprint Backlog.

• Tracking and making analysis work visible in Scrum.

• Managing units of work that supersede other units of work.

• Measuring the success of Sprints.

• Performing release management within Scrum.

• Managing hotfixes in the middle of an iteration.

• Tracking and reporting test automation effort.

• Creating a separate communication channel for technical communication among developers.

In December, I also started to work on the Advent of Code. I did get a little off track as I took my vacation, I do hope to get back to finish the 2021 puzzles and perhaps the previous years' puzzles in early 2022.