The Difference Between a Professional and an Amateur Being paid to do a job doesn’t make someone a professional. This post explains the crucial …
The Importance of Overlapping Work in Agile Being agile requires team members to overlap work but doing so brings uncertainty with it. Here’s …
Do Scrum Teams Meet Too Much? Scrum teams have too many meetings is perhaps the most common criticism of Scrum. But is it valid?
Five Lessons I’m Thankful I Learned in my Agile Career Here are five key lessons I learned that were instrumental in my career. See if learning them could …
The Four Reasons to Have a Consistent Sprint Length A team’s sprints should be the same length every sprint. Here are four reasons why.
Five Scary Things About Adopting Agile Read this special Halloween post about five things in agile transitions that are can seem as scary …
Add the Right Amount of Detail to User Stories Add too little detail to a user story and the team cannot finish it an iteration. Put too much …
Five Story-Splitting Mistakes and How to Stop Making Them There are plenty of mistakes a team can make when splitting user stories. Here are five of the most …
The Two Ways to Add Detail to User Stories User stories can be deliberately vague at first but detail needs to be added eventually. There are …
How Programmers and Testers (and Others) Should Collaborate on User Stories What do the testers do at the start of a sprint when there’s nothing to test? That problem is …
Nine Questions Scrum Masters and Product Owners Should Be Asking Scrum Masters and product owners can develop a habit of making statements rather than asking …
