Increasing the productivity of a Scrum Team is one of the Scrum Master’s top aims.
Here the facts you should consider for increasing a Scrum Team’s productivity:
- Communicate
- Work as a Team
- Work in 2-weeks sprints
- Use small user stories that can be completed in a day or two
- Work on a small number of stories at once
- Product Owner has to write clear user stories and acceptance tests
- Scrum Master has to identify and solve impediments
- Use a strong and clear Level of Done
- Individuals may (should!) cross disciplines to get things done without unpredictable wait times
- Make achievable commitments based on past results
