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This post explains how to use a Definition of Ready successfully and avoid it becoming a first step …

Story points are perhaps the most misunderstood topic in agile. Story points are not based on just …

When writing user stories, how should agile teams handle non-functional requirements—desired …

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

When a product backlog becomes too big, it hinders agility. Discover four steps your team can take …

I'm occasionally asked about the merits (and whether there are any) of putting an estimate of zero …

My wife, daughters and I use Wunderlist to manage our shared grocery list. Any time one of us …

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

Martin Lapointe shares how he and his family used Scrum to manage their recent relocation from …

You may have heard Scrum is one of the leading agile software development processes. With more than …

Scrum has never sat still. It evolves. One team tries something new, and it works so another team …

I was looking forward to reading this book. I haven't paid much attention to the PMI-ACP initiative …

You know that before the development team writes their first line of code, they need a funded …

The biggest risk to most projects is building the wrong product. Regardless of how fast your agile …

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

I've been wondering lately if Scrum is on the verge of getting a new standard meeting--the Backlog …

High-performing Scrum teams have learned to do a little bit of everything during a sprint, thereby …

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

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

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

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

This article addresses the issue of how much detail should be included in product backlog items and …

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

While I want teams to come to agreement, I don't care how heartfelt the agreement is.

The two best things about this book are that it: (1) provides a framework for adopting Scrum across …

The scrum of scrums meeting is an important technique in scaling Scrum to large project teams. …

Many teams try to divide and conquer when it comes to sprint planning, often with disjointed and …

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.

This is the book I’ve been wanted for years. Until this book, the Scrum development process was not …