January 2015

I love retrospectives!  Retrospectives are fun!  It's like you're getting a second chance at life, and you can do better at living the next life.  Well maybe that is an exaggeration.  Haha! In Tolkien's stories we see a lot of retrospectives happening at various points in the timeline.  We see…

When you are doing Scrum, how many backlogs do you work with in one project?  I'd bet most people would answer: "Just one backlog, duh!?!" There are two backlogs actually: the Product Backlog and the Sprint Backlog. The Sprint Backlog is the subset of the Product Backlog which the team…

Hello! It's me again, Kevin, your friendly neighborhood Scrum Master,  back so soon for another blog.  :) In following the Scrum framework, you do work in increments called Sprints.  I think it is still a common misconception that the Scrum Master is considered as the "Lord of the Sprint".  This…

Hi there.  I'm Kevin, Scrum Master for all the teams in Chromedia.  I joined the company last June 2014.  At that moment, I have had 2 years of experience being a Scrum Master for a software development team.  In my previous company we formed the first Scrum Team and I…