Capacity-Driven Sprint Planning There are two primary ways for planning a sprint: velocity-driven sprint planning and …
Velocity-Driven Sprint Planning There are two general approaches to planning sprints: velocity-driven planning and capacity-driven …
What Is Quality? Agile teams build high-quality products. Agile team members write high-quality code. Agile teams …
Handling Requests for Unnecessary Artifacts “Working software over comprehensive documentation.” You’ve certainly seen...
Critiquing One of My Own Real User Stories In case you haven’t noticed, a few months ago we launched Front Row Agile, a site dedicated to …
The Main Benefit of Story Points If story points are an estimate of the time (effort) involved in doing something, why not just …
Story Points Are Still About Effort Story points are about time. There, I’ve said it, and can’t be more clear than that. I’ve written …
The Agile Household: How Scrum Made Us a Better Family Martin Lapointe shares how he and his family used Scrum to manage their recent relocation from …
Now vs. Not-Now Prioritization Along with Medium-Term Goals In last month’s newsletter I wrote about how we make personal financial decisions in a now vs. …
Rely on Specialists, but Sparingly Last week, I talked about the concept of equality on an agile team. I mentioned that one meaning of …
Ray Bradbury on the Benefits of Short Releases In 2001, author Ray Bradbury gave a talk at the annual Writer’s Symposium by the Sea in San Diego. …
My Primary Criticism of Scrum On the first day of my Certified ScrumMaster course, we go over the agenda for the two days. I …
