The Difference Between a Story and a Task What’s the difference between a user story and a task? Well that’s an easy question, I thought, the …
Multiple Levels of Done Having a “definition of done” has become a near-standard thing for Scrum teams. The definition of …
Using Scrum to Plan Your Wedding In my ScrumMaster classes I always make the point that Scrum is a general purpose framework that …
Don’t Blindly Follow Don't blindly adopt anything. Scrum is comprised of a self-organizing team that is given...
If it needs to happen: Schedule it! In the following guest post, Lisa Crispin argues the benefits of scheduling anything that's important.
How I Work, and Use Scrum Personally I’ve been asked a few times to comment on how I work, what it is I do to stay highly productive, …
5 Reasons Product Owners Should Let Teams Work Out of Order A product owner hands 10 story cards to the team. The team reads them and hands the fifth and sixth …
Who Picks the Sprint Length on a Scrum Team? Of course, the answer is the whole team – that collective of ScrumMaster plus product owner plus …
Are Vanity Metrics Really All That Bad? I have a bit of a problem with all the hatred shown to so-called vanity metrics. Eric Ries first …
Agile Needs to Be Both Iterative and Incremental Scrum, like all of the agile processes, is both iterative and incremental. Since these words are …
Why I Prefer Capacity-Driven Sprint Planning The problem with velocity-driven sprint planning is that velocity is simply too variable to be …