Should You Re-Estimate Unfinished Stories? We avoid having unfinished work at the end of a sprint, but it sometimes happens. Here’s what to do.
The Empirical Retrospective Approach Do your developers think your retrospectives have become boring? The solution might be as simple as following the Empirical Process to transform your retrospectives into a fun, meaningful time for…
7 Questions to Determine if Being a Scrum Master Is Right for You Thinking of a career as a Scrum Master? 7 questions to help you decide if it's the right job for you.
How Detailed Should a User Story Be? Capturing too much or too little detail in a user story causes problems. Here's how to get it right, iteratively.
Should a Team Assign Work During Sprint Planning? Some teams assign all tasks upfront. Others don’t. Here’s what works best.
Top 5 changes in the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide Recently the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide was released. What changes were made that you need to be aware of in order to keep up to date with Scrum?
Three Strategies for Fitting Refactoring into Your Sprints It can be challenging to find time for refactoring. These approaches will help.
A New Appointment Means New Agile Training Options Introducing our new SVP of Agile Training and Coaching, Brian Milner.
My Most Popular Blog Posts from 2020 I wrote 26 blog posts during 2020. In case you missed some of them, here are the most popular.
What Happens When You Use Agile for the Wrong Reasons? Knowing why you want to achieve will a goal will help you reach it.
Should Your Team Adopt No-Meeting Weeks? It can be very tempting to schedule a week without any meetings. But there are better ideas.
