Agile Talks #38 - SCRUM Anti-patterns -The obsession over team velocity

Hi,

If you’ve been on an agile team that uses velocity as a key metric, you’ve probably experienced or at least witnessed some pretty strange behavior.

Let’s meet at Timisoara Agile Talks meet-up and I’ll help you understand the biggest Scrum anti pattern the obsession over team velocity, why companies should stop their obsession over velocity and stop using them as a measure of team performance. Velocity is one of the most misused Agile metrics, let’s find out how to use velocity in your scrum team and what is its purpose?

To understand velocity/story points, it’s necessary to know the purpose of why we estimate? And how? I'll take you through a deep dive on estimation and grooming. If you wonder ! Santosh! so how do we measure performance of a scrum team? Do not worry I got you covered. I’ll provide you some tips and best practices.

If you have any other questions about the Agile/scrum or if you are an agile practitioner and learner? A Problem-Solver, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer, Agile Coach, or an awesome Manager? I invite you to Agile talks Timisoara to learn together. Bring your challenge, opportunity, or problem! Anything you want to share, practice, or learn about!

About our speaker Santosh Usha Srinivasa
I am an Agile Coach/Scrum Master for Doctari group, I am an agilist who truly believes that “there is no failure, only feedback” whether it's at work or life! My motto is to make good teams great! And help teams embrace the true essence of agility. I help organizations to shift and transform from doing Agile to being Agile.

Agenda:

18:00 - 18:30 Arriving, socializing
18:30 - 18:45 Introduction
18:45 - 19:30 Santosh Usha Srinivasa - SCRUM Anti-patterns -The obsession over team velocity
19:30 - 19:40 Break
19:40 - 20:20 Open Space - ask the speakers for more details or propose interesting topics
20:20 - 20:30 Retrospective, Closing

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