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Four Steps to Keep Your Product Backlog Small and Manageable

Four Steps to Keep Your Product Backlog Small and Manageable

When a product backlog becomes too big, it hinders agility. Discover four steps your team can take today to reduce the size of your product backlog.

Six Agile Product Development Myths - Busted

Six Agile Product Development Myths - Busted

Pervasive myths about agile get in the way of success. It’s time to bust six of those myths.

Why Agile Teams Put So Much Emphasis on Being Done Each Iteration

Why Agile Teams Put So Much Emphasis on Being Done Each Iteration

Agile teams strive to finish work in the same iteration in which its begun. Here’s why that is so important.

My Most Popular Blog Posts from 2018

My Most Popular Blog Posts from 2018

I wrote 25 blog posts during 2018. In case you missed some of them, here are the most popular.

Incorporating Governance or Oversight into an Agile Project

Incorporating Governance or Oversight into an Agile Project

The iterative and incremental nature of agile makes an agile approach seemingly less compatible with project governance or oversight. Traditional, sequential approaches to project management are a…

Three Approaches to Estimating the Impact of Holidays and Time Off on Velocity

Three Approaches to Estimating the Impact of Holidays and Time Off on Velocity

How to adjust velocity for holidays and time off.

Get Your Free Personalized Guide to Agile

Get Your Free Personalized Guide to Agile

Succeeding with agile isn’t just about knowing where to start, it’s about knowing where to go next—wherever you are on your agile journey. Whether you’re completely new,…

How to Work with Complex User Stories That Cannot Be Split

How to Work with Complex User Stories That Cannot Be Split

Here’s what to do when facing a complex user story that cannot be split but is too large for one sprint.

Three Questions to Determine If an Organization Is Agile

Three Questions to Determine If an Organization Is Agile

A lot of organizations claim to be agile. Here’s a quick way to see if they really are.

Advice on Conducting Agile Project Kickoff Meetings

Advice on Conducting Agile Project Kickoff Meetings

Traditionally managed projects begin with a kickoff meeting. Here’s why and how agile projects can do the same.

What Does It Mean to Be Potentially Releasable?

What Does It Mean to Be Potentially Releasable?

Scrum teams know they need to be potentially releasable at the end of the sprint. But do they know exactly what that means?

Why Agile Teams Should Estimate at Two Different Levels

Why Agile Teams Should Estimate at Two Different Levels

It’s important for most agile teams to estimate both their product and sprint backlogs. But why?