March 2022

A selection of posts from March 2022:

• Processes to help teams move work through their workflow in a timely manner.

• Managing a bottleneck of code reviews / pull requests at the end of an iteration.

• You cannot create collaboration, only help people understand the benefits of collaboration and shared ownership of work.

• It's not always bad for a manager to attend a team's meetings and events.

• Balancing development and operational work on the same team.

• Capturing acceptance criteria is an iterative process.

• "No Meeting Days" are a sign of poorly managed events, especially when using the Scrum framework.

• Relationship between Sprint Goal and Sprint Backlog in Scrum.

• Relevancy of "Definition of Ready" and "Definition of Done" as the team moves toward Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment.

• Agility is about removing or reducing the burden of gates in the flow of work.

• Don't convince a team to use a particular framework. Start with understanding the problems and choosing methods, practices, and frameworks that help the team solve the problems.

• Forecasting more than one iteration out.