Visualizing a Large Product Backlog With a Treemap Treemaps are an excellent way of visualizing large product backlogs.
How To Fail With Agile Not everyone involved in an agile transition wants the change to be successful. This …
Improving On Traditional Release Burndown Charts By producing a single chart that shows both a team's rate of progress and the product backlog, we …
Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility This excellent book is targeted directly at Project Management Professionals (PMPs) but will be …
Working with “Storyless Tasks” A question I get frequently is what to do with tasks that do not belong to a particular user story …
The Chivalrous Team Member In seeking to improve how we develop software, we continually inspect and adapt. While thinking …
Prioritizing Tasks Within a Sprint When a team plans a sprint they make a commitment to complete the user stories they select from the …
When Should We Estimate the Product Backlog Sprint planning meetings typically go into deeper detail than is appropriate for product backlog …
Writing User Stories for Back-end Systems I was asked recently how to go about writing user stories for a back-end financial system. This is …
Writing the Product Backlog Just in Time and Just Enough This article addresses the issue of how much detail should be included in product backlog items and …
The US-Russian War of 1981 Sticky ideas and stories aren't necessarily bad; they are just things that change our attention at …
Patterns of Agile Adoption There are many ways to transition to an agile process. Choosing the approach that is most likely to …