Given enough time, a good agile team can estimate how long a product might take to deliver, even if the product backlog is huge. But the more precise the estimate, the higher the…
Participants in my Certified ScrumMaster courses are often surprised when I recommend that programmers participate in story-writing workshops. After all, a story-writing workshop is a meeting targeted…
I'm a child of the '60s, but only in the literal sense. I was born in 1962, so while I was alive during much of the excitement of that decade, I spent much of the decade playing
Vision and Backlog Scrum is a great framework for building a product with the right features. It encourages the use of a vision shared by the product owner, the ScrumMaster, the development team, and…
All of a Scrum team’s members should be present when playing Planning Poker. You may be tempted to estimate without the individuals in some role—don’t.
To see how this applies to an agile project, consider the issue of whether a team should earn velocity credit for fixing bugs during a sprint. A team that uses velocity to measure how much…
