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In Defense of Making Hard Changes

Scrum doesn't solve problems, it uncovers them and puts them in our face.

Reflections on the 10 Years Since the Agile Manifesto

Ten years from now I hope we’ve stopped calling it agile. I hope we’ve stopped calling it anything at all and are just doing it.

Deciding What Kind of Projects are Most Suited for Agile

Agile is most appropriate on any urgent project with significant complexity and novelty--and that includes software development and weddings.

5 Free Agile & Scrum Tools for Project Planning and Prioritizing

Mountain Goat Software and Mike Cohn, author and Agile Scrum expert, have announced the release of four free tools used in agile and scrum projects for planning and prioritizing.

Should Story Points Be Assigned to a Bug Fixing Story?

My usual recommendation is to assign points to bug fixing the agile defects. This really achieves the best of both worlds.

Choosing to Start Small or Go All In when Adopting Agile

When it comes to transitioning to agile a lot of companies wonder whether it is best to start small or go all in. In this article scrum and agile expert Mike Cohn looks at both options and gives…

New Book from Steve Denning on Agile at the Company Level

Leader's Guide to Radical Management If you want to see want agile look likes when applied at the corporate level, check out the new book, The Leader's Guide to Radical Management, by Stephen…

The Problems with Estimating Business Value

When we get features that are too small (as good user stories are), it is very difficult to put a discrete value on each.

The Roles of the Project Management Office in Scrum

A project management office (PMO) that is engaged in and supportive of transitioning to Scrum can be a tremendous boon or a source of resistance.

My Agile Books Made a List of Top 100 Agile Books

My three books on agile made this list of The Top 100 Agile Books by Jurgen Appelo.

Estimating Work Shared Between Two Backlog Items

It would be nearly impossible to remove all dependencies between product backlog items and so our goal becomes minimizing important dependencies rather than eliminating them altogether.

Story Points Estimate Effort Not Just Complexity

This agile estimation blog post from Mike Cohn looks at story points. Learn why user story points are a factor of complexity, volume of work, uncertainty, and risk.

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