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Dr Ian Mitchell
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    • 20 Unagile Things to Avoid Saying and Some Better Alternatives
    • A Digital Service Canvas for Government and Enterprise
    • A Project "Narrative" - Hindrance or Help?
    • A Typical Sprint, Play-By-Play
    • Agile Estimation in Practice
    • Agile Metrics: Lessons from your Headbone
    • Agile Scaling Frameworks: An Executive Summary
    • Agile Teamwork in Practice
    • Agile Tom
      • On Agile Contracts
      • On Agility in Government
      • On Measuring Progress
      • On Scrum versus Kanban
      • On Task Boards versus Kanban Boards
      • On the Agile Manifesto
      • On the Attainment of Transparency
      • On the Definition of Done
    • Agile Transformation in Organizations that Suck
    • Agile Transitioning and Transparency: Let the Dog See the Rabbit
    • Agile Transitioning in a Chastened World
    • Agility, Transition, and Government
    • An Agile Health Check: The Daily Standup in Practice
    • An Agile UK Government - Let's not tip the kid out of the crib
    • Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management
    • By Bell, Book, and Candle
    • Choosing Columns for Agile Team Boards
    • Choosing Metrics for Agile Practice
    • Confirmed or Busted: Are the Mythbusters Agile?
    • Counting Chickens: Undone Work in Scrum
    • Daily Scrums with Kanban
    • Definitions of Done in Practice
    • DZone Scrum Refcard Update
    • Expedite! Handling Unplanned Work in Scrum
    • Faking It: Estimates and Metrics in Scrum
    • Flow Optimization at the Sprint Boundary
    • From the Agile Manifesto to Evolutionary Contract Models
    • Frozen Requirements make a Tough Stiff to Saw
    • Getting Real with Scrumban
    • Gross Definitions: 144 Agile Terms You Simply Have To Know
    • Is agile transformation at risk?
    • Limiting WIP: Stories vs Tasks
    • Managing Technical Debt
    • Method Wars: On the Commoditization of Estimates
    • Method Wars: Scrum vs SAFe
    • Monte Carlo forecasting in Scrum
    • On the Road to Agility Fair
    • Ordering a Product Backlog to Minimize Development Team Dependencies
    • Presentation: Innovation Accounting in Scrum
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    • Product Ownership in Practice
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    • Pull in Practice
    • Risk Burn-up: Daring Deeds in DevOps
    • Running Scrum Sprints in DevOps
    • Scaling between Lean and Agile Practice
    • Scrubbing Sprint Zero
    • Scrum Events: Who sends out the meeting invitations?
    • Scrum Guide change: Planning Retrospective items into a Sprint Backlog
    • Scrum Master: Servant Leadership in Practice
    • Scrum Roles from a Lean Perspective
    • Scrum to Lean Kanban - some problems and pitfalls
    • Scrumban - or How to get Leaner by Sprinting Less
    • Sprint Backlogs in Practice
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    • Sprint Retrospectives with Kanban
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    • Sprint Reviews with Kanban
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    • Suiting Up for Agile Practice
    • Taking One for the Team: the Refactoring of Failure
    • Technical Spikes in DevOps
    • The Agile Crime Scene
    • The Agile Manifesto from a Lean Perspective
    • The Agile PMO
    • The Agile Response to a P1 Incident
    • The Empirical Product Owner: Innovation Accounting in Scrum
    • The Kanban Sandwich: A Bite-Size Recipe for Agile Work Flows at Scale
    • The Product Backlog and Technical Debt
    • The Scrum Shack Archive
    • The UK Government's Agile Strategy - If you can remember it, you weren't really there
    • The Vault
    • Three Sporting Fails for your Agile Interview
    • Twenty Top Fails in Executive Agile Leadership
    • Type I Scrumban: A Forensic Approach
    • Type II Scrumban: Going Straight
    • Type III Scrumban: A Journey
    • User Stories in Practice
    • Using a "Technical Debt Register" in Scrum
    • Walking Through a Definition of Done
    • Walking Through a Definition of Ready
    • What is a Product Backlog for, anyway?
    • When Done is Too Hard
    • Why Stretched Teams do Scrumban
    • Why the Agile Enterprise must be an Innovation Network
    • Winging It: Going Live with Technical Debt
    • Your boss, the Invader from Mars
    • Zombie Stories: Conversations From Beyond the Grave
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Dr Ian Mitchell

The Scrum Shack Archive

Here are the Scrum Shack articles that were posted before 2014.

  1. Agile Transformation in Organizations that Suck

  2. Method Wars: On the Commoditization of Estimates

  3. Method Wars: Scrum vs SAFe

  4. Limiting WIP: Stories vs Tasks

  5. Sprint Retrospectives in Practice

  6. Your boss, the Invader from Mars

  7. Sprint Backlogs in Practice

  8. The Agile Response to a P1 Incident

  9. The Kanban Sandwich: A Bite-Size Recipe for Agile Work Flows at Scale

  10. Agile Teamwork in Practice

  11. Sprint Reviews in Practice

  12. Taking One for the Team: the Refactoring of Failure

  13. Definitions of Done in Practice

  14. Product Backlogs in Practice

  15. Confirmed or Busted: Are the Mythbusters Agile?

  16. Agile Estimation in Practice

  17. Sprint Planning in Practice

  18. Winging It: Going Live with Technical Debt

  19. Scrum Master: Servant Leadership in Practice

  20. An Agile Health Check: The Daily Standup in Practice

  21. Suiting Up for Agile Practice

  22. User Stories in Practice

  23. Product Ownership in Practice

  24. Why Stretched Teams do Scrumban

  25. Getting Real with Scrumban

  26. Agile Transitioning and Transparency: let the dog see the rabbit

  27. Scrumban...or how to get leaner by sprinting less

  28. Scrum to Lean Kanban: some problems and pitfalls

  29. Scaling between Lean and Agile Practice

  30. Agile Transitioning in a Chastened World

  31. Frozen requirements make a tough stiff to saw

  32. A Project "Narrative": hindrance or help?

  33. An Agile UK Government - let's not tip the kid out of the crib

  34. On the road to Agility Fair

  35. The UK Government's Agile Strategy: if you can remember it, you weren't really there

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