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Top 10 Articles of 2024

Updated: 4 days ago

At Rebel Scrum, we love discussing ideas and learning from our readers what ideas resonate with you. Here’s our list of the 10 most popular Rebel Scrum articles, by traffic, in 2024. Is there something that you would like to hear about in 2025? Contact us to share your article ideas.


#10: Using Surveys to Improve Scrum Team Success

The fastest way to take the pulse of a Scrum Team is to (wait for it) ask them.  Ask them how it’s going using sentiment surveys at the Sprint Retrospective or through an anonymous survey. 


Use surveys to get feedback

#9: 10 Interview questions for the Scrum Master

In this article, we present ten interview questions that will aid you in selecting the perfect Scrum Master for your team.


Daily Scrum

#8: Characteristics of a Great Product Owner

Some of the best Product Owners that I have ever worked with had some characteristics in common.



Characteristics of a great Product Owner

#7: The Purpose of Estimation in Scrum: Sizing for Sprint Success

The purpose of the Sprint is to deliver a done increment of valuable, usable product.  In order to get there, it is important that higher ordered Product Backlog items are sized so that they are small enough to be completed within a single Sprint. 


Incremental Delivery

#6: Ask a different question at the Daily Scrum

Here are 8 new questions that you can ask at the Daily Scrum to help make this event less boring and more collaborative.



Same questions at the Daily Scrum is boring!


#5: How the 12 Principles in the Agile Manifesto work in real life

The Agile Manifesto includes four values and 12 principles that describe a better way to approach complex work.  In this article, we discuss each of the 12 principles and what they mean in the real world.


Principles of Agile Manifesto

#4: How to create a point system for estimating in Scrum

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, “Product Backlog items that the Scrum Team can do within one Sprint are deemed ready for selection in a Sprint Planning event.”  But how do you know whether you’ve sized your Product Backlog items such that the team can complete them within one Sprint? In this article, we dive a bit deeper into the most popular estimation technique: relative estimation. 


Fibonacci point system

#3: What Does Being a Cross-Functional Team in Scrum Mean?

A central feature of the Scrum framework is the concept of a cross-functional team. But what exactly is cross-functionality, and how is it beneficial?  Let's explore this topic in an agile software development context.


Cross-functional

#2: What is Iterative, Incremental Delivery? The Hunt for the Perfect Example

​Iterative, incremental delivery is critical to a successful Agile team.  Without it, Agile is really just window dressing. In this article, we discuss five analogies that explain incremental delivery.


Incremental

#1: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing for Agile teams

This article provides an overview of the Tuckman model, which describes the phases that groups of individuals go through when they first begin working together as a team.


Tuckman model



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