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Smørekopp

Why we decided to abandon this​

Nowadays different team members are working on different projects that have specific approaches. We commit ourselves to being flexible and trying to fit as good as we can in each team. This renders this particular approach impractical to use.

Smørekopp

What it is​

Smørekopp (Norwegian word for a kind of grease can)

Instead of having a permanent scrum master role in our teams we've decided to have this as a rotating role within the team. This has brought us some really fun benefits

  • Stops meetings and sprint ceremonies from becoming stale
  • Allows different people to bring their own "flare" to a sprint
  • Brings new ideas into the sprint process
  • After being in the driving seat everyone in the team has a new level of respect / understanding of the role and how to be as helpful as possible in the future to make things run smoothly (e.g. keeping tickets well updated)

If you're a part of one of our product teams then expect to be a Smørekopp a few times a year :)