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

In 2001, author Ray Bradbury gave a talk at the annual Writer’s Symposium by the Sea in San Diego. …

I think I’d like to buy a big-screen plasma television. And maybe after that, a new amplifier for …

Participants in my Certified ScrumMaster courses are often surprised when I recommend that …

Vision and Backlog

Scrum is a great framework for building a product with the right features. It …

I recently helped to facilitate a two-day planning session for an important initiative at Adobe …

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

A Scrum trainer recently asked for a couple of good, real examples of large user stories (epics) …

The technique of expressing requirements as user stories is one of the most broadly applicable …

The vast majority of what has been written about agile processes is intended for programmers and …

Getting close to their customer and using rapid feedback cycles led to Team New Zealand winning the …

As a project management framework, Scrum introduces many changes. One of the biggest is the role of …

Remember the difference between an estimate and a commitment and keep the two activities separate, …

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

In seeking to improve how we develop software, we continually inspect and adapt. While thinking …

What my friend had found is that his product owners had evolved in adaptation to their environment, …

One measure we may want to include in our suite of metrics could be the responsiveness of the …

User stories are a great way to get people talking about requirements. However, there's a reason …

If the only certain things in life are death and taxes, why do so many teams think that if they …

An academic paper that describes the importance of using more than just the vaguely defined …

An experience report presented at XP2006 covering why it is not as simple as telling product owners …

Change may be a constant, but it doesn't have to be constant. By following some simple guidelines, …

Scrum was designed to be lightweight, so if your team is complaining that it's too heavy, you need …

A key consideration in adopting an iterative process is selecting how long your iterations will be. …

Products that do everything they're supposed to do and offer consumers something they like, but …

With no land in sight to guide them, it would have been all too easy for early sailors to get lost …

Users are often kept at arm's length. We ask them for their input on the design, but then we, as …

Let's face it, most people don't know what they want. Most of us just

The transition from a plan-driven to an agile process affects not only the development team …

Over the years we've come up with many useful database development techniques. This article …

Ken Schwaber and I co-wrote this article to help counter the misperception that agile projects do …

This article describes how a project was successfully downsized from 100 to 12 developers. To make …

This article describes some very useful metrics that are probably worth collecting on any project.