Sprint Zero: A Good Idea or Not? One of the biggest problems with having a sprint zero is that it establishes a precedent that there …
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Number, Name, Date-Stamp or Sing Your Sprints One of the most creative things I've seen teams do is pick a theme song for the sprint.
The Product Owner in a Sprint Retrospective Is your agile team excluding the Scrum product owner from your sprint retrospectives? Check out …
Selecting the Right User Role It is sometimes beneficial to write stories for someone other than the user.
The Key to Success in Agile Metrics It's a new year--that fabled time of midnight parties, resolutions, and, for us Americans, football …
Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future I've never been a big fan of the Shewhart or Deming cycle of Plan-Do-Check-Act. Sure, it works fine …
Two Examples of Splitting Epics A Scrum trainer recently asked for a couple of good, real examples of large user stories (epics) …
Overheard During a Customer Conversation About Estimates Estimating is a way of buying knowledge. If having the additional knowledge will lead to different …
Agile Teams and Risk Management Ahh, it's fall. Not only does it bring the return of great, cooler weather but it ...
Origins of the Mountain Goat Name I've been remiss in blogging as often as I should. I'm sorry and promise to do better. On the …