As ScrumMasters work to enhance their knowledge of Scrum and help their organizations move towards agile transformation, there is definitely a time and place to use Scrum-specific books to help with that. Books like mine, 30 Days to Better Agile, give specific and targeted advice about how to fix some of the most common problems that occur during…

There are inevitably going to be times when a Scrum team commits to deliver a user story and they do not complete it. So what happens next? The Product Owner rejects the story. It goes back to the Product Backlog and can be prioritized wherever the PO would...

This is a question I get all the time: how can I improve the velocity of my Scrum team? To which I say: Yikes - BE CAREFUL! You are falling into a common mistake: thinking that one of the goals of Scrum is an ever-increasing velocity.