Mary Iqbal

When teams first learn that every Sprint they must deliver a usable, Done increment—including both development and testing—it can feel impossible. A common temptation is to develop in one Sprint and test in the next. Don’t. The extra cost is far higher than most teams expect. Here are the five biggest problems this creates. Administrative Burden You've just created a whole lot of administrative burden for the Scrum team. Now instead of keeping track of one Product Backlog item, they need to...

People new to Scrum or without formal training sometimes use Scrum as an excuse for various bad practices. These practices can be very...

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, Scrum team members should be “self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and...