Points Are About Relative Effort Not Ranking Story points on an agile product backlog represent the effort to implement the backlog item.
Agile Succeeds Three Times More Often Than Waterfall Agile projects are successful three times more often than non-agile projects, according to the 2011 …
Estimating and Planning Are Necessary for Maximizing Delivered Value Planning is the act of thinking about the future. Sometimes that future holds risk and uncertainty. …
Please Help Me List the Problems with Using Agile or Scrum I'm trying to create a list of the biggest, most common, or hardest to overcome agile problems that …
In Defense of Large Numbers Removing the large values from a deck of Planning Poker cards is like deciding to strike millions …
Agile in the Age of Hyperspecialization Agile does not at all require individuals to be generalists, but individuals are expected to work …
Simulating a Project by Resampling Velocity Resampling is based on the idea that things we’ll observe in the future will be similar to the …
Seeing How Well a Team’s Story Points Align from One to Eight The topic of how well a team estimates two point stories relative to one point stories (and so on) …
Estimating a Full Backlog Based on a Sample of It How do we estimate how many hours it will take to deliver a given product backlog if we have no …
Case Study on ePlan Services I'm in the midst of reading Specification by Example by Gojko Adzic. I'm a big fan of his earlier, …
Protecting the Team Cuts Both Ways Scrum Masters need to protect agile teams from more than just overly aggressive product owners. …