Introducing the LAFABLE Process for Scaling Agile Over the last year or so, scaling agile and Scrum have become very popular topics. A variety of …
3 Roles That Need to be Involved in Agile Estimating with Planning Poker All of a Scrum team’s members should be present when playing Planning Poker. You may be tempted to …
Know Exactly What Velocity Means to Your Scrum Team To see how this applies to an agile project, consider the issue of whether a team should earn …
Making the Decision to Abnormally Terminate a Sprint It's always good to have a Plan B. And all Scrum teams do--it's called an abnormal termination. An …
Six Times Two Plus One Equals a Good Project Cadence In last month's newsletter I wrote about the idea that everything happens within a sprint. There is …
Unfinished Work at the End of a Sprint is Not Evil I guess I angered a few Scrum purists recently when I said that it's OK for an experienced team to …
Only Show Finished Work During a Sprint Review—Maybe During sprint reviews, teams are supposed to demonstrate only those product backlog items that are …
Using Vertical Slicing and Estimation to Make Business Decisions at Adobe I recently helped to facilitate a two-day planning session for an important initiative at Adobe …
Placing Rules on Self-Organizing Teams Many of the challenges in agile and Scrum stem from the idea of the self-organizing team. Of …
New Year’s Resolutions for ScrumMasters and Product Owners Happy New Year! It's resolution time. A ScrumMaster may want to resolve to praise the team more often.
Top Ten Gifts For the ScrumMaster In Your Life If you're like me, you're late in starting your shopping this year, whether it's for Hanukkah, …
How to Be Sure You’ve Thought of Everything A common question I get is how can a product owner (or team) be sure they've thought...