Iterating

Planning an exact time to do something within a sprint helps make sure you get the important stuff …

Product owners often sacrifice progress toward important goals to put out short-term fires. There’s …

Although you may wish it weren’t the case, some Scrum Masters need to document how a sprint went. …

It’s quite common for a team to have a bit of unfinished work at the end of an agile sprint or …

Don't blindly adopt anything.

Scrum is comprised of a self-organizing team that is given...

Scrum, like all of the agile processes, is both iterative and incremental. Since these words are …

Ahh, it's fall. Not only does it bring the return of great, cooler weather but it ...

Unfortunately, in many companies, we see an inconsistency between project governance and project management.

The effort of adopting Scrum is best managed using Scrum itself.

We've already overloaded the word backlog with product backlog and sprint backlog. Why confuse …

Until I learn how to receive divine inspiration at the start of my iteration planning meetings, I'm …

Discover whether agile teams should work on one product backlog item at a time or if it's OK for …

As a measure of the amount of work completed in an iteration, velocity works extremely well when …

Some teams may respond to the pressure for their abstract measure of velocity to increase by …

Rolling lookahead planning is a useful technique for large projects or any project with external …

I was asked recently how to go about writing user stories for a back-end financial system. This is …

A common misperception is that testers cannot do any work during an iteration until the programmers …

I eventually came to the realization that the team would always be smarter than me.

We all crave regularity. We want a steady rhythm and a strong downbeat so we know the steps we need …