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 …
It’s Summer, Find Something to Celebrate It’s July—find something to celebrate with your team. Unless your “down under,” you’re probably …
Prioritize and Optimize Over a Slightly Longer Horizon A lot of agile literature stresses that product owners must prioritize the delivery of value. I’m …
Can a Product Owner Dictate the Architecture? In general, a Scrum product owner's job is to specify what to build, not how to build it. Read this …
Holacracy and the Search for Agile Organization I met Brian Robertson back when he was still the CEO of Ternary Software and experimenting with the …
Product Backlog Refinement Learn about product backlog refinement: how, when, and why the agile team and product owner refine …
Impostor Syndrome: Why Some ScrumMasters Feel Like They’re Faking It Geoff Watts is one of the leading Scrum thinkers in the world, and one of the few to hold both the …
Getting Comfortable with Not Signing Up for Tasks in Sprint Planning In last week’s blog post, I wrote about whether team members should sign up for tasks during sprint …
Should Team Members Sign Up for Tasks During Sprint Planning? During sprint planning, a team selects a set of product backlog items they will work on during the …
Valuing Your Work as an Agile Coach How should we value our work as agile coaches and consultants? The way I do it is to ask myself if …
Let Go of Knowing: How Holding onto Views May Be Holding You Back You undoubtedly have a firmly held set of convictions about what is necessary to do agile well. …
Should You Share Details from the Retrospective? During a sprint retrospective, team members gather and discuss ways in which they can improve. This …