thelighthouse Playbook on Scrum
2 min readJul 22, 2021
Resources, best practices and tools to help you and your Agile team in the most productive way!
In this guide we cover:
- What is a Scrum?
- Scrum Master, who?
- Building a Scrum Team
- Interdisciplinary Approaches (UX Design, Product Leadership)
- Tactical Skills
- Productivity in Scrum Teams
- Things to Consider
What is Scrum?
- Definition of Scrum
- How to Explain Agile and Scrum to Your Grandpa in 5 mins and better Understand it Yourself
Scrum Master, who?
- Agile Development: What is a Scrum Master? Roles and Responsibilities?
- Are You Really Looking For a Scrum Master? — Not According To the Job Description!
- Scrum Master Certification — What Provider To Choose?
From Personal Experience…
Building a Scrum Team
- Using the “Who” Process for Hiring Developers and Scrum Masters
- 10 things you must do to build high-performing Scrum Teams as a Product Owner
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Product Leadership
- Why Scrum needs Product Leadership
- 20 Questions from New Scrum Master to Product Owner
- To All Scrum Masters: Please Step Up Your Game (from a Product Owner)
Ux Design
- Top 6 Challenges UX Designers Face When Working in Scrum Teams
- 5 Rules for Integrating UX with Agile and Scrum
- Design Sprints for Scrum Projects
Tactically Speaking…
- 10 Tips to Improve your Daily Scrum
- Free games, templates, formats, and inspiration for Scrum Teams
- Agile Development: KPIs for the Scrum Teams
- How To Kickstart A Great Scrum Team (10 practical things to do)
- Scrum Project Management: Secrets of Effective Sprint Planning
- Scrum: How to Refine Product Backlog?
Promoting Productivity
- Avoid Scrum Zombies: Help the Team Focus on the Sprint Goal with the Sprint Weather Report
- A Better To-Do List, According to a Scrum Master
- Try Design Thinking + Scrum
- Scrum for Highly Interrupted Teams
- A Scrum Master’s Strategy for Focusing a Scattered Mind
Things to consider
- What the Scrum Guide Doesn’t Say
- 6 Reasons Why Scrum Fails
- We Replaced the Scrum Master Role with the Agile Delivery Lead Role
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe): when you don’t have the guts to do Scrum
- You’re Doing Scrum Wrong, and Here’s How to Fix It
- Scrumbut: We Scrum, But…
