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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Budget When You Can’t Estimate I've written before that we should only estimate if having the estimate will change someone's …
An Iterative Waterfall Isn’t Agile I’ve noticed something disturbing over the past two years. And it’s occurred uniformly with teams …
Are 64% of Features Really Rarely or Never Used? A very oft-cited metric is that 64 percent of features in products are “rarely or never used.” The …
Estimates on Split Stories Do Not Need to Equal the Original It is good practice to first write large user stories (commonly known as epics) and then to split …
Not Everything Needs to Be a User Story: Using FDD Features User stories are great. When you’ve got users, that is. Sometimes, though, the users of a system or …