Sprint

Sprint Goals: aspiring purpose, effectivity and happiness

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Sprint Goals: aspiring purpose, effectivity and happiness

Today I scheduled another one of my three-weekly company talks on Scrum. This time I prepared a presentation for my peers on the topic of the benefit of using (great) Sprint Goals. I have rewritten the structure and contents for publication on this blog. In brief: a Sprint Goal is the single objective that defines … Read more

Why you should reduce work in progress

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Little's Law: an eye-opener

After reading about an intriguing concept related to work in progress limits, I fell into a rabbit hole of research that kept pulling me deeper: mathematical principles and psychological findings that all point to the same uncomfortable conclusion. Doing more things at once means finishing fewer things, more slowly. (This wasn’t what I wanted to … Read more