The Board – Episode 20
Episode 20 of The Board was presented by Kirstin Donaldson and Gavin Coughlan, both Agile coaches at Boost. Paul, usually the third presenter, was away holidaying for a couple of weeks in the UK. This episode we covered the following topics:
- Actors in a user stories
- How to handle chores
- What happens during the last sprint of the project
- Velocity and it’s importance
- Ways to measure how happy your team is
- The role of the Scrum Master
- Breaking the Scrum rules
- How to keep retrospectives fresh
- Splitting user stories
Links mentioned in the show:
- How to split a user story
- The Niko-niko calendar
- Plans for Retrospectives
- Shu Ha Ri
- Batch size – the penny game
- Paper plane game
- Whitepaper: Managing risk with Agile
- Scrunch lunch Meetup