Planning

Ever wonder why your projects always seem to be late? The reason might surprise you.

Agile teams often struggle to estimate product backlog items. Here are 7 ways to make solid improvements.

The best plans are created by developers and stakeholders working together.

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

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

Sprint planning may look like it’s about tasks and estimates but those are not the goal.

Establishing a common baseline allows multiple teams to estimate consistently with story points.

Pervasive myths about agile get in the way of success. It’s time to bust six of those myths.

Velocity can be great for predicting how much a team can deliver in a given period. But it needs to …

Succeeding with agile isn’t just about knowing where to start, it’s about knowing where to go …

It’s important for most agile teams to estimate both their product and sprint backlogs. But why?

Some teams like story points so much, they invent task points and use those for sprint planning. …

A lot of agile literature stresses that product owners must prioritize the delivery of value. I’m …

In my ScrumMaster classes I always make the point that Scrum is a general purpose framework that …

In the following guest post, Lisa Crispin argues the benefits of scheduling anything that's important.

The problem with velocity-driven sprint planning is that velocity is simply too variable to be …