
Uncover why scrum goes wrong and apply scrum values as daily decision tools. Learn to fix backlogs, merge multiple backlogs, avoid burned down charts, and troubleshoot product owner and developers.
Learn how scrum values, including commitment, focus, openness, courage, and respect, function as day to day decision making tools to guide sprint goals, realism, feedback, and team collaboration.
Merge multiple backlogs and apply a simple formula to keep your product backlog focused, explore common PBI issues, and learn why ordering beats prioritizing the backlog.
Refine and balance the product backlog by defining short-term items for sprint planning, outlining medium-term directions, and clarifying long-term epics to improve communication within the scrum team and with stakeholders.
Crowdsource your initial product backlog by collecting ideas on index cards, rating them one to five, ranking top ideas, and discussing to refine high-priority backlog items for the product owner.
Map the product owner's interactions with stakeholders, customers, developers, and management using four quadrants, including backlog refinement, identify current and missed interactions, and address impediments to value-based decisions.
Build a cross-functional team with t-shaped skills through continuous mentoring and shared skill sets. Implement engineering practices like code reviews, feature branching, and regular releases to ensure release-ready, agile delivery.
Explore how to overcome management resistance, tackle sprint planning anti-patterns, optimize the sprint backlog, and transform the daily scrum and sprint review into productive, collaborative agile ceremonies.
Navigate management resistance to scrum by coaching leaders, inviting them to sprint reviews, and demonstrating scrum values through transparency, inspection, and adaptation, while aligning work to OKRs.
The development team owns the sprint backlog, including the sprint goal, selected backlog items, and estimates. A transparent physical board improves visibility and supports self-organization over burn-down charts.
Are you doing Scrum wrong?
Scrum is not an easy framework to get right. Many things can go wrong. While most courses teach you how to use Scrum, The “Scrum Repair Guide” shows you how to fix the most challenging, real-life problems. Use this guide to help your team get back on track so you can focus on shipping high-quality products with maximum speed and efficiency.
What you’ll get from this course
I created this course and packed it with practical, real-world experiences that I’ve gained working with Agile teams around the world.
This is primarily a “learn by doing” course. So all theory is paired with practical exercises we’ll complete together in your workbook.
With this course, you’ll be able to...
Pinpoint problems quickly and find solutions before productivity is at risk.
Access a set of practical activities to run with your team for evaluating & troubleshooting issues
Energize and focus team members so they collaborate more effectively
The practical activities you'll complete include...
Evaluating your current team's Scrum maturity
2 "non-awkward" team building activities
A sprint retrospective for instilling Scrum values
Merging multiple product backlogs
And more...
Why do I need a Scrum repair guide?
Agile Scrum is valuable because it is a flexible, lightweight framework. It offers a minimum set of values and practices but doesn't define everything a team needs to do to successfully build and release products. Teams are expected to complement the Scrum framework with practices to suit their unique environment. Many teams struggle in two areas: to 1) how to live by Scrum values and 2) how to adopt complementary practices.
So how do you fix this? In a field where so many teams follow counter-productive practices, copying others won’t work.
This course will help set your team on the right path by showing you how to establish best practices and troubleshoot existing issues
So Let’s Do This! Enroll now and sharpen your Scrum troubleshooting skills.
I’ll see you inside!