Many of you work in a dedicated in-house team, but some of you contract with companies for Scrum and agile consulting. One problem that sometimes arises as an agile contractor is when the prospective…
Even if you've taken the often stated agile stance of getting rid of periodic performance reviews in your organization, it can still be helpful to provide people with some commentary on how their…
I've never been a fan of naming user stories. Stories should generally be short enough that naming them should be necessary. Yes, novels and movies get names. But we don't name the sentences…
I've always been envious of those with nice handwriting or even distinctive printing. I've always been in too much of a rush to do be better than barely legible at either. My handwriting…
If you do want to take notes, I recommend writing the note on a whiteboard or some place where everyone participating in the meeting can see what you write.
I occasionally encounter the use of t-shirt sizes (Small, Medium, Large, or so on) in use as estimating units by teams. T-shirt sizes are an OK approach to getting started with relative estimating,…
It’s one of my favorite times of the year: March Madness. (For non-Americans: That means college basketball playoffs.) I grew up in Los Angeles during a time when UCLA (University of California…
One of the biggest problems with having a sprint zero is that it establishes a precedent that there are certain sprints or sprint types that have unique rules.
