Ideas for Home Scrum that we don’t use
These are related ideas from Scrum and nearby concepts, but that we haven’t found useful to use in our own Home Scrum system. Perhaps they may still be useful for you though!
Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, and Acceptance Criteria
The following ideas are not all an official part of Scrum, but they are often used in conjunction with it as complementary techniques. Francis and I don’t use them in our Home Scrum, as we struggle
T-shirt sizes, planning poker, and capacity/velocity
Extra things you can do around sizing tasks One way to check that your tasks are a reasonable amount of work and have been broken down to the right level is to size them. When you’re saying whether
Role of a Product Owner
In an official Scrum team, there are three roles: the developers (that is, the people doing the work), the Scrum Master, and the Product Owner. A Product Owner’s job is to own the Product Backlog. A
Role of a Scrum Master
Like the Product Owner, the Scrum Master is a special role within an official Scrum team. Their role is an unusual one quite unique to Scrum. They are responsible for several things. They are the guar