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. …
A Sample Format for a Spreadsheet-Based Product Backlog I want to show a real easy way to put user stories in a spreadsheet-based product backlog. I wrote …