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At the surface, user stories appear to have much in common with use cases and traditional …

When it comes to transitioning to agile a lot of companies wonder whether it is best to start small …

A project management office (PMO) that is engaged in and supportive of transitioning to Scrum can …

High-performing Scrum teams have learned to do a little bit of everything during a sprint, thereby …

The concepts of agility and project governance are not fundamentally opposed. Each is an attempt to …

Rolling lookahead planning is a useful technique for large projects or any project with external …

Not everyone involved in an agile transition wants the change to be successful. This …

In seeking to improve how we develop software, we continually inspect and adapt. While thinking …

This article addresses the issue of how much detail should be included in product backlog items and …

There are many ways to transition to an agile process. Choosing the approach that is most likely to …

The scrum of scrums meeting is an important technique in scaling Scrum to large project teams. …

The selection of a new Scrum team’s ScrumMaster can impact the success or failure of the team's …

User stories are a great way to get people talking about requirements. However, there's a reason …

Numbers may not lie, but measurements can sure mislead you. This article explores two myths about …

Many teams try to divide and conquer when it comes to sprint planning, often with disjointed and …

If the only certain things in life are death and taxes, why do so many teams think that if they …

An academic paper that describes the importance of using more than just the vaguely defined …

An experience report presented at XP2006 covering why it is not as simple as telling product owners …

Change may be a constant, but it doesn't have to be constant. By following some simple guidelines, …

Scrum was designed to be lightweight, so if your team is complaining that it's too heavy, you need …

A key consideration in adopting an iterative process is selecting how long your iterations will be. …

Products that do everything they're supposed to do and offer consumers something they like, but …

Are you shirking your decision-making responsibility? It happens more often than you think, and …

With no land in sight to guide them, it would have been all too easy for early sailors to get lost …

Too much work goes into use cases to not employ them to their full potential. By assigning points …

Projects fail for a plethora of reasons; one article could not hope to address all of them. …

Multitasking makes us feel more productive, but in truth trying to take on more than two tasks …

Users are often kept at arm's length. We ask them for their input on the design, but then we, as …

We all crave regularity. We want a steady rhythm and a strong downbeat so we know the steps we need …

I was honored to be the guest editor of a special issue of Better Software magazine that was …

Let's face it, most people don't know what they want. Most of us just

This article was written for the Scrum Alliance soapbox. It presents an initial collection of Scrum …

The transition from a plan-driven to an agile process affects not only the development team …

Over the years we've come up with many useful database development techniques. This article …

Ken Schwaber and I co-wrote this article to help counter the misperception that agile projects do …

This article describes how a project was successfully downsized from 100 to 12 developers. To make …

This article describes some very useful metrics that are probably worth collecting on any project.