The Sprint Goal: What It Is and How It Can Help Sprint goals are something every Scrum team should try to create. Learn what sprint goals are and …
Why Sustainable Pace Is So Important to Agile Teams It isn’t just people who benefit when teams work at a sustainable pace. Overall velocity is higher …
Definition of Ready: What It Is and Why Its Dangerous This post explains how to use a Definition of Ready successfully and avoid it becoming a first step …
Agile Mentors Community: My Favorite Agile Resource If I could make only one recommendation for an agile resource, this would be it…
What Product Owners Do & 7 Mistakes to Avoid Learn what good product owners do to avoid 7 common product owner mistakes.
User Story Template: What It Is and Why It Works So Well The standard “As a...I...so that…” user story template is a way of expressing product backlog …
Agile Teams: Concurrent Engineering & Overlapping Work Overlapping work is one element of agile that is difficult for teams to understand and master. …
Don’t Call the Scrum Police: Agile Rules Are Rare Mountain Goat Software announces ScrumPolice.com, a mock website based on a very real issue: Too …
Agile Requirements Gathering: Three Types of Requirements Deadlines are often missed because teams fail to consider emergent requirements. Learn about the 3 …
Why I Don’t Emphasize Sprint Goals Sprint goals are considered a mandatory part of Scrum. Here’s why I disagree.
User Stories: How to Create Story Maps Story maps help to create a shared understanding of the product, visualize user needs, and elicit …
How to Run a Successful User Story Writing Workshop What you need to know to conduct a story-writing workshop with your team.
