Christian Neiderstam

Worth Building with Scrum

The artifacts

Everything the team in the book produces, indexed by chapter. The facilitation tools are written to be used on your own project — the prompts, the questions, the sessions. All of it free, no account, no sign-up.

Read & reuse Artifact pages

The technique behind an artifact, written out in full, with prompts and frames you can copy. This is where reuse happens.

See the shape Two public boards

Where each artifact sits in the sequence, and what existed before it. Useful for seeing the shape of the process rather than as a template.

Part One — The Journey

  1. Ch 1 Business DriversRead & reuseFive drivers, each with the outcome that would prove it moved
  2. Ch 2 Product VisionRead & reuseThe vision statement, and the six-slot frame it was built from
  3. Ch 3 Product GoalRead & reuseThe goal, with the candidates that lost and why
  4. Ch 4 Business Commitment FrameworkDiscovery boardDrivers, vision and goal side by side, as a backlog rather than a signed-off document
  5. Ch 6 Definition of DoneRead & reuseThe standard the team wrote, and the three questions that produced it
  6. Ch 7 Capability areasRead & reuseFour capability areas decomposed from the Product Goal
  7. Ch 8 EpicsRead & reuseFive Epics sliced from one capability area
  8. Ch 9 User StoriesRead & reuseUS1.1 in full, with the INVEST check applied honestly — including the two answers that aren't a clean yes
  9. Ch 10 Acceptance CriteriaRead & reuseUS1.1 with all twelve criteria, including the one that caused trouble
  10. Ch 11 Definition of ReadyRead & reuseThe ordered, refined backlog — and the four-line standard it was checked against
  11. Ch 12 Sprint 1 PlanningRead & reuseSprint Goal, capacity arithmetic, and the story that was split rather than cut
  12. Ch 13 Daily Scrum transcriptsRead & reuseDays 4, 5 and 8 on one card — watch who does the talking
  13. Ch 14 Sprint 1 ReviewDevelopment JourneyAn Increment that met eleven criteria out of twelve, and the person who said so
  14. Ch 15 Sprint 1 RetrospectiveRead & reuseFour candidates, one action — and a record of what was deliberately not chosen
  15. Ch 16 Sprint 2 ReviewDevelopment JourneyEvery criterion met, no business driver moved — and the person who wasn't in the room

Part Two — Navigating the Storm

  1. Ch 18 Backlog under pressureDiscovery boardA CEO-endorsed idea, captured and ordered below routine work — note where it sits
  2. Ch 20 Definition of Done, under pressureRead & reuseThe same card — see its revision history for what changed and why

The two boards

The Discovery & Refinement board is a pipeline: drivers on the left, Ready-for-Sprint on the right, and everything in between in the order it was produced.

The Development Journey board is an archive. Sprint 1 and Sprint 2 sit side by side so you can see a Sprint mid-flight and a later one finished at the same time. Your own board won't look like that — yours will move forward, one Sprint at a time. This one is arranged to be read rather than worked.

Discovery & Refinement board → Development Journey board →

The Beauty Spot project is fictional. The artifacts are not. All of it comes from Worth Building with Scrum: From Why to Done — the chain from a business driver to a line of finished code, worked through one team's four Sprints. About the book · read chapter 1 free.