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 …
Estimating Non-Functional Requirements Doing performance testing creates some amount of overhead on the team (the tax). This overhead or …
Time as a Competitive Advantage An article I read in 1988 has always stuck with me. The article was “Time–The Next Source of …
A New Artifact - The Long-Term Product Backlog Left unattended, a product backlog can become large and hard to work with. If your backlog has …
Scrum Alliance & PMI: A Day at the Museum While the Scrum Alliance and PMI are competitors in some ways, they each serve a common audience, …
In Defense of Making Hard Changes Scrum doesn't solve problems, it uncovers them and puts them in our face.
Reflections on the 10 Years Since the Agile Manifesto Ten years from now I hope we’ve stopped calling it agile. I hope we’ve stopped calling it anything …
Deciding What Kind of Projects are Most Suited for Agile Agile is most appropriate on any urgent project with significant complexity and novelty--and that …
5 Free Agile & Scrum Tools for Project Planning and Prioritizing Mountain Goat Software and Mike Cohn, author and Agile Scrum expert, have announced the release of …
Should Story Points Be Assigned to a Bug Fixing Story? My usual recommendation is to assign points to bug fixing the agile defects. This really achieves …
Choosing to Start Small or Go All In when Adopting Agile When it comes to transitioning to agile a lot of companies wonder whether it is best to start small …
New Book from Steve Denning on Agile at the Company Level Leader's Guide to Radical Management If you want to see want agile look likes when applied at the …