My Primary Criticism of Scrum On the first day of my Certified ScrumMaster course, we go over the agenda for the two days. I …
Simplify Prioritization into “Now” and “Not Now” I think I’d like to buy a big-screen plasma television. And maybe after that, a new amplifier for …
Choose Backlog Items That Serve Two Purposes I've been playing a fair amount of Go lately. If you're not familiar with Go, it's a strategy game …
Adding Decorated User Roles to Your User Stories When writing user stories there are, of course, two parts: user and story. The user is embedded …
Teams Should Go So Fast They Almost Spin Out of Control Yes, I really did refer to guitarist Alvin Lee in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class last week. …
4 Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Product Backlog It's May, and we're well into spring now. If you're like me, you haven't yet done your annual …
Introduction to Scrum PPT You may have heard Scrum is one of the leading agile software development processes. With more than …
Schedule vs. Cost: The Tradeoff in Agile Just because a shorter schedule is more important most of the time, does not mean it is more …
Paying the Cost for More Precise Estimates Given enough time, a good agile team can estimate how long a product might take to deliver, even if …
4 Reasons to Include Developers in Story Writing Participants in my Certified ScrumMaster courses are often surprised when I recommend that …
2 Times to Play Planning Poker and 1 Time Not To I recommend using Planning Poker on product backlog items rather than on the tasks that make up a …
Be Here Now I'm a child of the '60s, but only in the literal sense. I was born in 1962, so while I was alive …