Agile Practices

Estimating product backlog items provides benefits beyond predicting when a project will be finished.

How to build and sustain a Scrum team that exceeds the sum of its parts.

What exactly does cross functional mean and why does it matter?

An agile team should provide visibility into its work. But not all work should be equally transparent.

I wrote 25 blog posts during 2018. In case you missed some of them, here are the most popular.

There is no full set of agreed-upon agile principles. Is this leading to lowering the standards for …

Agile can be applied well beyond software development. It’s been used for construction, planning …

Does a team have to work with user stories to do Scrum? Of course not.

You’ve likely heard of agile development processes like Scrum and XP. You might have even begun to …

Not everyone involved in an agile transition wants the change to be successful. This …

There are many ways to transition to an agile process. Choosing the approach that is most likely to …

Many teams try to divide and conquer when it comes to sprint planning, often with disjointed and …