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Should teams receive partial credit on nearly finished stories when calculating their sprint …

Many of the challenges in agile and Scrum stem from the idea of the self-organizing team. Of …

Happy New Year! It's resolution time. A ScrumMaster may want to resolve to praise the team more often.

If you're like me, you're late in starting your shopping this year, whether it's for Hanukkah, …

A common question I get is how can a product owner (or team) be sure they've thought...

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One of my favorite movie scenes comes in The Untouchables when mobster Al Capone (played by Robert …

As much as I value estimating the product backlog, not every team needs to do it. And those who do …

Personally, I don't mind whether I've been called big cheese or manager. Call me whatever you want. …

I worked with a team last week that had three business people who each established the team's …

In a recent interview for an upcoming agile book by Sondra Ashmore and Kristin Runyan, they asked …

Even if you've taken the often stated agile stance of getting rid of periodic performance reviews …

I was recently interviewed for an upcoming agile textbook written by Sondra Ashmore and Kristin …

I've never been a fan of naming user stories. Stories should generally be short enough that naming …

I've always been envious of those with nice handwriting or even distinctive printing. I've always …

One of my favorite things to hear about during this part of a daily scrum is how team members in a …

If you do want to take notes, I recommend writing the note on a whiteboard or some place where …

It’s one of my favorite times of the year: March Madness. (For non-Americans: That means college …

I don't use story points for sprint planning because story points are a useful long-term measure. …

Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) are definitely very aligned. In fact, if you walked in on a team …