Why Agile Teams Should Estimate at Two Different Levels It’s important for most agile teams to estimate both their product and sprint backlogs. But why?
Free Scrum Foundations Video Course This video series is the perfect primer for Scrum. It’s great prep for the Certified Scrum Master …
Why Your Product Backlog Should Look Like an Iceberg An agile product backlog should evolve over time, with product backlog items and user stories …
An Agile Team Name Generator Are you struggling to find a catchy name for your agile team? Use this fun, mostly silly, generator …
Six Guidelines for Saying No to a Stakeholder Telling a stakeholder you can’t work on their feature is difficult. Here are ways to make that …
Self-Organizing Teams Are Not Put Together Randomly There are things leaders can do that will influence how a team self organizes.
Ten sentences with all the Scrum Master advice you’ll ever need Want to become an even better Scrum Master? Follow these 10 easy-to-remember practices.
How to Ensure You’re Working on the Most Important Items Each Iteration Product owners often sacrifice progress toward important goals to put out short-term fires. There’s …
Four Quick Ways to Gain or Assess Team Consensus Agile team leaders often need to gauge or achieve consensus. Learn four of the best ways of doing that.
Defect Management by Policy: A Fast Easy Approach to Prioritizing Bug Fixes Prioritizing bug fixes has always been a challenge in software development. Even though there are …
Help Buy Scrum a Design Phase Scrum has never had a design phase. Perhaps it’s time to fix that. Here’s a humorous take on how to …
Better User Stories: 24 Hours Until Doors Close There are only 24 hours left until we stop accepting registrations for the new Better User Stories …