📋 One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria, and how they relate to User Stories.

The Scrum Guide is now specific: the Definition of Done is a formal description of the state of the Increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product. The moment a Product Backlog item meets it, an Increment is born.

Some Developers will assume "Done" means it works on their machine. Others will believe it means they throw their work over the wall to Quality Assurance or Test. Still others will assume that "Done" is limited to checking in working code. The Guide is clear now; the question is whether your organization is. If the Definition of Done is part of your organization's standards, every Scrum Team must follow it as a minimum. If it isn't, the Scrum Team must create one.

That's why the Definition of Done exists: to ensure that the members of the Developers and the Product Owner agree about the quality and completeness of the work they're producing. This is intended to be applicable to all items in the Product Backlog, not just an individual User Story.

If I asked three people on your team what "Done" means, would I get the same answer?

#Scrum #Agile

https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/definition-of-done-user-stories-acceptance-criteria/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=archive-reshare

🗂️ Stop feeling like you're just herding cats. Start enabling real, measurable improvement.

Learn how to get your team unstuck with this one-day workshop that will show you how to significantly strengthen your Scrum practices with proven Kanban principles. See exactly where bottlenecks are happening. Focus your team's energy. Coordinate work continuously, not in endless meetings.

No disruptive transformation needed; layer Kanban on top of what you're already doing. Use WIP limits to stop the multitasking madness and actually finish work.

This workshop is not just for software development or people with a computer science degree. We've helped many non-software teams become more effective.

Who attends: individual contributors (developer, tester, BA), ScrumMasters, Product Owners, traditional project managers, mid-level executives, and Agile Coaches.

November 13, live online, 9:00 to 5:00 Eastern.

#Scrum

https://agilepainrelief.com/courses/scrum-better-with-kanban/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=archive-reshare

»We Are Becoming« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/we-are-becoming #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

No One is Coming to Save You by Stuart Young and Dave Prior is free with a Leanpub Reader membership! Or you can buy it for $19.99! https://leanpub.com/surfthechaos #scrum_project_management #project_management #career #agile #scrum #leadership_agile #selfhelp #life_coaching

freut sich, morgen nach #stuttgart zu fahren, um dann einen kurs von @NadjaBoehlmann zu besuchen 🎉

#kaizen #lean #agile #scrum

»Reinvention« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/reinvention #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nobsagile/117386666385392344

Gute Arbeitsbedingungen ermöglichen gute Produkte. Mit guten Produkten verdient man Geld.

Deshalb: Es geht um das Produkt. Immer.

Der #ScrumGuide betont es.
Das ist für mich der Unterschied zum Projektmanagement.

#Agile #Agilität #Scrum

#agile boosted

Thomas 🔜 Manage Agile 2026 » 🌐 2026-10-05
@nobsagile@mastodon.social

Agiles Arbeiten macht meinen Arbeitsalltag besser. Dafür wurde es nur nicht erfunden.

Das erste agile Prinzip lautet: „Unsere höchste Priorität ist es, den Kunden durch frühe und kontinuierliche Auslieferung wertvoller Software zufrieden zu stellen.“

Das gute Arbeitsumfeld ist ein Nebeneffekt. Ein schöner, aber eben ein Nebeneffekt.

Als ich das hier mal zur Umfrage gestellt hab, sahen viele andersrum.

https://no-bullshit-agile.de/nba29-gedankenexperiment-agiles-manifest.html?mtm_campaign=mastodon

#SoftwareDevelopment #Agile #Programming

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Comic-Illustration auf beigem Grund. Zwei Figuren stehen sich gegenüber. Links reicht eine Figur einen Pappkarton herüber, rechts hält eine Figur mit Brille einen pinken Zettel hin. Oben links in großer Schrift auf Gelb und Schwarz: „Das Agile Manifest meint den Kunden“, dabei ist „Kunden“ invertiert. Darunter: „Ein gutes Arbeitsumfeld ist der Nebeneffekt“.

#ElifEralp schreibt immer SMARTe Sprintziele!

#Scrum #Agile #ScrumMaster #AgileHumor #linksgrünversifft

»We don't Need Another Hero with Dave Borzillo« http://drunkenpm.blogspot.com/2026/10/we-dont-need-another-hero-with-dave.html #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

🛠️ Starting with something classically messy, we practice taking code that is an antiquated mess and bring it into a modern age. We work together to bring our product to "market" and, along the way, wrestle with the real challenges of dealing with legacy code, poor acceptance criteria, and questions of good design. We explore Agile Engineering Practices, and practice working with a Product Vision, Strategy (Story Map) and understanding how User Stories really work.

What you'll practise:
- How Agile testing and Definition of Done help maintain high quality
- Effective ways to handle legacy code, technical debt, testing, and architectural decisions
- Moving from User Story, to testable Acceptance Criteria, through to Implementation

Prerequisites: coding experience in one of Java, C#, JavaScript, Typescript.

As Simon Willison puts it: "The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. … Unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge."

Certified Scrum Developer (CSD): November 4-6, live online, 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern.

#Scrum #TechnicalDebt

https://agilepainrelief.com/courses/certified-scrum-developer-training-csd-technical/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=archive-reshare

#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #scrummaster #productowner #leadership #management #executives #priorities #toppriorities #toppriority #unrealisticexpectations #spookyseason #october #scrumhumor #agilehumor #agile #Meme #memes #Humor #humour

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Picture of a skeleton with its hand extended out and complaining "excuse me what the f*ck" Caption: When leadership let's you know they are adding a new top priority to your current work, but it's also October.

»When AI writes the code, the cost moves« http://less.works/blog/2026/09/30/when-ai-writes-the-code-the-cost-moves.html #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»What did I feel in there?« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/what-did-i-feel-in-there #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

#GEDANKENBLITZ | Politik muss agiler werden

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Politik muss agiler werden. Sie sollte iterativ und inkrementell arbeiten – sowohl in der operativen als auch in der strategischen Umsetzung. Stellt euch vor, Gesetze würden wie Software-Updates in kleinen Schritten getestet und angepasst. Wobei geprüft wird, ob die Erwartungen und Annahmen mit der tatsächlichen Wirkung überprüft werden.

Dafür gibt es eine Unmenge an methodischen Ansätzen, die sich adaptieren lassen. Ich habe mir dazu schon in der Vergangenheit immer wieder Gedanken gemacht, auch im Blog des Forums Agile Verwaltung z. B. in einer Kombination aus Scrum mit Bürgerräten oder dem Einsatz von OKRs in der strategischen Steuerung. Gerade denke ich darüber nach, wie auch Obeya in diesem Kontext sinnvoll Verwendung finden könnte.

Es ist fast schon schade, dass diese Ideen außerhalb der agilen Blase in der Politik kaum Fuß gefasst haben. Das ist sicherlich auch – nicht nur – den Mechanismen des Parteienwettbewerbs und der Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie geschuldet.

Ich finde das persönlich sehr schade. Ich würde mir mehr Austausch wünschen. Vielleicht liest der eine oder andere politische Entscheidungsträger, wie beispielsweise Gemeinderäte, Landtags- oder Bundestagsabgeordnete, sogar Abgeordnete im Europäischen Parlament, hier in Toms Gedankenblog mit und fühlt sich angesprochen. Das würde mich freuen. Ich bin offen für einen Gedankenaustausch.

»The Agile Moose Herd« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/the-agile-moose-herd #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»The Empathy Trap« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/the-empathy-trap #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

Stefan Wolpers hat zehn Grundlagen agilen Arbeitens aufgeschrieben. Er nennt sie Agile Primitives.

Kein Sprint ist dabei. Kein Daily, keine Story Points, kein Scrum Master.

Dafür kleine Inkremente, Continuous Integration, Feedback-Schleifen und Einfachheit.

Leg die Liste neben euren Sprint. Wer jedes Ritual abhakt und bei den zehn Punkten nicht vorankommt, spielt agiles Arbeiten nur.

In NBA67 gehe ich sie durch:
https://no-bullshit-agile.de/nba67-agiles-arbeiten-unabhaengig-von-agilen-methoden.html?mtm_campaign=mastodon

#Programming #SoftwareEntwicklung #Scrum

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Plakat auf hellgrauem Grund, schwarze Versalien: „Zehn Grundlagen, kein einziger Sprint“, das Wort „Sprint“ weiß auf schwarzem Balken. Darunter: „NBA67: Agiles Arbeiten ohne feste Methode“. Unten ein schwarzer Streifen mit no-bullshit-agile.de.

@barryovereem in regular visited teams i like to participate myself. i got always interesting insights that the people gifted to me

@agile
#scrum #agile #retros #liberatingstructures

Sprinting through the V: A Practical Workflow for Running Automotive V-Model Programs on Agile Sprints by Blagoje Mrkic is the featured book 📖 on Leanpub!

A practical workflow for running automotive V-model programmes on real agile sprints - with ASPICE and ISO 26262 evidence produced as you go, not reconstructed before the audit.

Link: https://leanpub.com/sprintingthroughthev

#Systemsengineering #Embedded_systems #System_integration #Scrum #Systems_engineering

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mlevison/117333314839731639

For the same reasons I have problems with usual test management by case numbers.
I prefer this dashboard instead. It's based on assessments by skilled people.
https://www.developsense.com/resource/ReportingExamples/dashboard.pdf
#Testing #Softwaretesting #agile #scrum #kanban

Mark Levison » 🌐 2026-09-25
@mlevison@hachyderm.io

🚦 Red-Yellow-Green status reports are so far removed from the original data that they hide everything.

A team's Task Board or Portfolio Kanban Wall is a first-order model of reality. Not a perfect mirror, but fairly close. A Burndown, Burnup or Cumulative Flow Diagram is a second-order model: it summarizes what's on those boards. Red-Yellow-Green reports are models of the other charts, in that they summarize the already summarized information, hiding almost all details.

Green means we're on track both with time and budget. But missing is important context. A project might be "green" if it's within 5% of budget. That tells you nothing about the quality of the work. Yellow means there are scope or time problems but, with sufficient re-planning, we can come back to target. Red indicates serious issues but doesn't give details, what the issues are, or how they happened.

RYG reports have many shortcomings, but the biggest is that they assume that a plan's scope, budget, and time are fixed and unchanging. This approach might be adequate in a world where these are true, but in the Agile world where change is accepted as the norm, colour-coded, highly abstract reports are dangerous.

Since RYG reports usually have "green" as a default state, often there are too few questions asked about possible issues until it's too late. I do not recommend using RYG reports at all.

https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/red-yellow-green-or-rygrag-reports-how-they-hide-the-truth/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=archive-reshare

https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/red-yellow-green-or-rygrag-reports-how-they-hide-the-truth/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=archive-reshare

Hey #agile #scrum #kanban,
angenommen (oder vielleicht auch tatsächlich) ihr habt kein Daily (oder es kann nicht immer jeder dabei sein), wie würdet dafür sorgen, dass das Team sich synched? Jeder über den aktuellen Stand Bescheid weiß.

Muss das überhaupt sein? Kommt ihr ohne Daily klar? Wie macht ihr es dann?

Viele Grüße

@barryovereem @christiaanverwijs

its so cool to see the research of @karen to develop and put into practice.

was already very helpful for me many times to put some facts into mindset discussions.

@agile
#agile #scrum #columinity

»There are NO Easy Buttons« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/there-are-no-easy-buttons #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»Getting Shit Done« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/getting-shit-done #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

10 Options to start with Scrum.

We created this illustration a few years ago (or even longer), it's still a fun & interesting poster to use for reflection.

How did you get started, and what happened because of that? If you could start all over again, what approach would you prefer this time?

#agile #scrum

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A poster with 10 options to start with Scrum.

@michael_muench thats really cool, i am in. i guess with a session about some results of using #columinity @index
and looking forward to attend with the @haufegroup crew (again)

cc
@agile @micheal @karen @barryovereem @christiaanverwijs @derchristian
#agile #scrum #lean

A Scrum by Example teaching story, set in our fictional World's Smallest Online Bookstore.

About a third of the way down the Product Backlog there's a Story: "As Julia (a Real Estate Agent and frequent book buyer), I want to buy a gift card to thank a fantastic recent client." Estimated at 20, so the team agrees it needs to be split.

As the Scrum Team discusses the Story, they ask Product Owner Paula several clarifying questions. How will the recipient redeem the gift card? Already covered in a later story, also estimated at 20. Printable or electronic? Electronic for now. Fancy graphics and messaging? Nice to have, not essential for v1. Refillable or one-time use? Undecided.

Seeing that refillable gift cards cost 8 Story Points, Paula says, "That's expensive for the value I get," and pushes it down in priority. She also notices the combined cost of the $10 gift card Story and the alternate-denominations Story is 18 Points, quite large. She asks if it would be cheaper to allow any amount. The Team comes back with an estimate of 8: still more complex than the basic Story, but far less than 18.

All of this leads Paula to realize that being able to use a gift card is as important as buying one.

The leading cause of poor Sprint Planning, and therefore crappy Sprints, is team members not understanding the User Stories they're working on. Refinement exists to make sure the Product Backlog is clear and understood by everyone before the Sprint, not just to make it look good.

Scrum by Example is a narrative-style blog series designed to help people think through real problems on a Scrum team, especially the human ones.

#Scrum #ProductOwner

https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/scrum-product-backlog-refinement/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=archive-reshare

@thomasfricke

i like the most, that all those people in the slide are here, except mr waits.

@k9ox @kentbeck @rebeccawb @ericevans

@agile
#agile #scrum #newword

Eine interessante Analyse von Rudi Gysi darüber wo es Probleme bei der Koordination mehrerer Teams geben kann. Egal ob SAFe oder andere agile Agile-Skalierungen.
Mit seiner Erfahrung sieht er die Lücke in dem was Klaus Leopold Flight Levels nennt.
Und ihm fehlen gemessene Daten. Es wird viel Versprochen und gibt Erfahrungsaussage, aber kaum öffentlich verfügbare Daten.
https://agilereflection.org/diesmal-ist-es-nicht-die-lehmschicht/
#agile #scrum #kanban

Ретроспектива за 45 минут: как перестать превращать ретро в час коллективного нытья

Ретро умирают одинаково: жалобная книга вместо разговора, сорок минут на один спор, экшен-айтемы в никуда. Разбираю тайминг на 45 минут, четыре формата (Start Stop Continue, Mad Sad Glad, 4L, Sailboat) — что писать в каждую колонку и когда какой брать, — и правила, которые держат ретро живым. Во второй части — как устроена моя бесплатная доска для ретро: стек, где хостится, шифрование карточек и что происходит с данными.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1083318/

#ретроспектива #ретро #agile #scrum #команда

#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #scrummaster #productowner #teamsmeetings #TeamMeetings #microsoftteams #Meme #memes #Humor #humour

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Four panel Portuguese Greece Comic. First panel: Spiderman reacting to the symbiote touching him. He says "Oh no! The symbiote is latching on to me!" Second panel: The symbiote is making its way up his body. He says "It's changing my mind and my body..." Third panel: He is standing there entirely in black and says "...and making me do things that I wouldn't naturally do..." Fourth panel: He is seen sitting at a computer that is showing a Microsoft Teams logo.

»Complicity« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/complicity #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»What happened to Agile: A Retrospective« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-agile-a-retrospective #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

Holy Moly.... wie die Zeit verrennt.

Vor mehr als 2(!) Jahren war ich Gast bei @nobsagile im Podcast:

https://no-bullshit-agile.de/nba25-im-gespraech-marco-von-scrumschau-ueber-scrum.html

#Agile #Scrum #ScrumMaster #AgileCoach

Почему продукт и разработка не могут работать отдельно друг от друга

Кажется, что при создании сложных инженерных систем разработка создает технологию, а продукт упаковывает ее для заказчика. У каждой команды своя зона ответственности. На самом деле всё не так просто. Мы в «Фалькон Тех » уже 9 лет разрабатываем цифровые решения для умного города на основе видеоаналитики и машинного зрения. В статье рассказываем, почему продукт и разработка должны работать в связке, а не передавать друг другу задачи по цепочке.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1080320/

#Управление_разработкой #Управление_продуктом #Agile #Scrum

»Implosion« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/implosion #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

First Principles in Scrum: Foundations Japanese by Jeff Sutherland is the featured book 📖 on Leanpub!

もっと優れたスクラムマスターになりたいですか？　世界に変化をもたらしたいですか？

アジャイルチームに責任を持つマネージャーの方ですか？

そうであれば、スクラムにおける第一原理を学ぶ必要があります。

これらの洞察が人生を変えた、あるいは人生を取り戻させてくれたと語る人もいます。

変化を起こす準備はできていますか？　それなら、この本を読んでください。

Link: https://leanpub.com/firstprinciplesscrumfoundationsnew-ja

#Computer_programming #Scrum #Business_and_management #Agile_enterprise #Product_management

Line Managers as ScrumMasters, let's look at the consequences. The line manager has power over the team. This power inevitably affects team dynamics and self-organization. When the Manager becomes the ScrumMaster, the essence of Scrum will rapidly disappear.

Over 10 years ago, Google discovered that the single biggest factor affecting team performance wasn't the quality of the manager, nor the skill level of individual team members. It was psychological safety. When the Manager is the team's ScrumMaster, it is much more challenging to create safety.

Then there are performance reviews. When a Manager is the team's ScrumMaster, team members will self-organize, in part, to ensure that they get a good performance review.

The ScrumMaster is also expected to protect the team from pressure and outside interference. Much of that pressure comes directly from their line manager. When the ScrumMaster is the team's manager, one safety mechanism gets removed.

#Scrum #ScrumMaster

https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/why-having-a-tech-lead-or-manager-as-scrum-master-is-a-bad-idea/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=archive-reshare

#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #scrummaster #productowner #leadership #management #executives #meetings #zoom_meetings #teamsmeetings #longmeetings #longmeetingssuck #endlessmeetings #deathbymeeting #officehumor #officelife #Meme #memes #Humor #humour

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Oregon Trail video game screenshot that has been altered to read: you have died of endless meetings without meal or bathroom breaks

i like to push the keyboard away and to create a workshop design offline...

and must admit, its really helpful to have so many thought out material by @barryovereem and @christiaanverwijs 🙏

you can find it here:
https://github.com/theliberators/facilitation-materials/

and still need to digest it into my own flow.

@agile
#liberatingstructures #agile #scrum #smep

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an untidy desk with a notebook with fancy green ink, liberating structure playing cards spread out and the keyboard pushed away.

»Good Listening« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/good-listening #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum