Doug Shimp – Agile Scrum Coach

There are a number of things you should do before you can even begin planning. The most important thing you can do is make sure that your Product Owner is prepared, and understands what the stories are about.

The goal here is to get the team to express work they can do and follow through on a commitment.

Should there be only one way to think about scrum? Probably not, although, a rookie mistake is to modify without have deep applied practice and experience under your belt.