I've always been envious of those with nice handwriting or even distinctive printing. I've always been in too much of a rush to do be better than barely legible at either. My handwriting…
If you do want to take notes, I recommend writing the note on a whiteboard or some place where everyone participating in the meeting can see what you write.
I occasionally encounter the use of t-shirt sizes (Small, Medium, Large, or so on) in use as estimating units by teams. T-shirt sizes are an OK approach to getting started with relative estimating,…
It’s one of my favorite times of the year: March Madness. (For non-Americans: That means college basketball playoffs.) I grew up in Los Angeles during a time when UCLA (University of California…
One of the biggest problems with having a sprint zero is that it establishes a precedent that there are certain sprints or sprint types that have unique rules.
Is your agile team excluding the Scrum product owner from your sprint retrospectives? Check out this blog from agile expert Mike Cohn to discover why this is a really bad idea.