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Driving Value with Sprint Goals with Maarten Dalmjin

Sep 3, 2023

The podcast discusses the importance of Sprint Goals, challenges of feature factories, humble planning in Scrum, setting clear sprint goals for outcomes, and deeper concepts of Scrum implementation. It also explores the practical benefits of 'Driving Value with Sprint Goals' and emphasizes the significance of quality over quantity in product development.

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Maarten Dalmjin

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Having clear Sprint Goals aligns team efforts, enhances collaboration, and focuses on value delivery.

Breaking free from 'planning cycles of madness' improves planning effectiveness and avoids management frustration.

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Importance of Sprint Goals in Scrum

Sprint goals play a crucial role in Scrum by providing direction for teams to drive value. Martin Dalmin shares his experience on the significance of sprint goals in his book, 'Driving Value with Sprint Goals'. He emphasizes the importance of having a clear sprint goal to achieve desired outcomes and avoid technical debt. By focusing on sprint goals, teams can align their efforts towards achieving a unified objective, enhancing collaboration and ensuring a singular focus on value delivery.

Is Quality Over Quantity the same as outcome over output?

01:17

How does goal driven planning help encourage emergence?

01:08

Introduction

5min

Exploring Sprint Goals and the Pitfalls of Planning Cycles

3min

Exploring the Pitfalls of Feature Factories and Value Delivery

2min

Humble Planning in Scrum

7min

The Importance of Setting Clear Sprint Goals

16min

Exploring Deeper Concepts of Scrum Implementation

4min

In this episode, Maarten talks about Importance of Sprint Goals, beating feature factory, obsession on exhaustive planning, need for humble planning, goal driven planning, technique to write Good Sprint goal, outputs and outcomes, Scrum and much more.. If you wish to buy Maarten's book, You can buy using below links: India: https://www.amazon.in/Succeeding-Sprint-Goals-Shifting-Outcome/dp/0137381921/ US and rest of the world: https://www.amazon.com/Driving-Value-Sprint-Goals-Addison-Wesley/dp/0137381921/

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