Does Being a Scrum Master Get Easier Over Time? Being the Scrum Master of a Scrum team can be hard work. But does it get harder over time? Or easier?
Should You Use Zero-Point Estimates on Your Product Backlog? I'm occasionally asked about the merits (and whether there are any) of putting an estimate of zero …
Leave Work Unassigned and See Who Steps Forward Early in my career, I noticed the project managers in my company drove nicer cars than we …
Who Can Add Items to the Product Backlog? My wife, daughters and I use Wunderlist to manage our shared grocery list. Any time one of us …
Advice for Interviewing ScrumMasters Interviewing Scrum Masters can be difficult because the job is harder than most to turn into a …
Ensuring a Consistent Design Without an Upfront Design Phase In last week’s post, I wrote about how to integrate UI designers into the agile sprint. I said that …
Incorporating UI Design in Agile Sprints A question I’ve been getting a lot lately is whether UI designers should be part of the Scrum team …
Change Isn’t Free Agile teams are told to “embrace change,” which is the subtitle to Kent Beck’s wonderful Extreme …
Handling Work Left at the End of a Sprint It’s quite common for a team to have a bit of unfinished work at the end of an agile sprint or …
Shifting from Scarcity to Abundance Thinking Over the past few months, I've read a few books on marketing. But I've also taken a handful of …
Upfront Thinking Is Like Insurance Some projects will benefit from some amount of upfront thinking, just like many of us benefit from …
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