Are you a firefighter in your Scrum team? 

Are Product Backlog Items being pushed on you?  

Don't be a firefighter on your Scrum team, limit your work in progress and flow!  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Is your workflow visualized in a software tool online?  

Try visualizing the workflow to a physical board with post-its and see how Developers take ownership!  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Is Quantity more important than Quality?  

Throughput helps the Product Owner forecast the amount of value that can be delivered to the Stakeholders.  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Is a User story not being cared for? 

Is a User story blocking the flow in the team?  

A filter for Work Item Aging (eg: 5 days in a 1 month Sprint)  helps the Developers and Product Owner pay attention to those user stories that are clogging up the flow.  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Our SLA called for 4 hours resolution time! 

Our team managed to resolve with a cycle time of 2 hours!! 

We were mighty proud :)  

Do you know your team cycle time?  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Can you multitask and keep your Scrum Team and Product Owner happy? 

Not always, especially when things are undone and nobody is happy.  

A little bit of WIP to the rescue and get your Scrum Team to flow!  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Do you have a DoD in your Scrum Team? 

Do you stick to your DoD come what may?  

A simple DoD rule of a Development team I was part of was that every piece of code had to have unit tests with full test coverage.  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Would you play football without goals?  

Fuzzy Sprint Goal: Enable the platform with social logins 

Measurable Sprint Goal: Enable the platform with a Google account login  

SMART criteria for a goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria 

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Does a company run without a mission or vision? 

Should a Scrum Team take the time to create a Product Goal together?  

How does the Product Goal sets the direction for every single Product Backlog Item that is created and worked on!  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

CI for Developers 

CD for DevOps 

Continuous Improvement with the help of "Sprint Retrospectives"  

Useful links: 

https://www.funretrospectives.com/ 

https://miro.com/templates/retrospective/ 

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Is your Sprint Review a looooooong PowerPoint presentation?  

How about balancing it with Live demos and a slide here and there?  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Planning the "WHAT" and the "HOW"  

How we had a goal (WHAT) to upgrade 1000 users to a new version and managed to do it in Sprint by splitting it into well defined user stories(HOW)  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Just imagine, working on a long project over many years with no milestone!  

Just imagine, working on a long project with multiple milestones in the form of Sprints (one month of less) delivering value and continuous feedback!!  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Have you attended a "Daily Scrum" once a week? I did.  

Here is our journey which which took our "Daily Scrum" from once a week to once a day (right before lunch).  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

"You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?'" - Serendipity  

How passion in a Product Owner can move mountains for a team!  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Developers climbing a mountain together with a plan, pivoting in-between and reaching the summit!  

Developers mastering a Sprint together with a Sprint Backlog, pivoting in-between and reaching the Sprint Goal!  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

How do you feel when a project is stopped and it comes as a surprise?

What if the Stakeholder and Scrum team are open with each other?

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

A little respect goes a long way!  

How the Scrum Master intervened and helped a team learn the value of respect.  

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Thumbs up for the SMART Sprint GOAL!  

Do you reassess your Sprint GOAL when the Scrum Team does not commit? 

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh 

Company: Moss and Lichens 

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Would you develop a feature that the customer does not need?

Showing courage and gaining the trust of the stakeholder.

Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh

Company: Moss and Lichens

Website: https://mossandlichens.com/

Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/