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Success Factors in Scrum

Explore the key success factors of Scrum by identifying effective roles, refining backlogs, managing sprint timelines, and integrating quality assurance. Understand how to deliver valuable product increments and improve team processes in each sprint for better outcomes.

The Scrum failure modes imply its success factors

Each of the failure modes described in the previous lesson can be converted to a success factor, which results in a list like this:

  • Have an effective Product Owner.

  • Refine the backlog.

  • Keep stories small.

  • Hold daily scrums daily.

  • Limit sprints to 1–3 weeks.

  • Organize work into vertical slices.

  • Integrate tests, testers, and QA into the ...