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Four Quick Ways to Gain or Assess Team Consensus

Four Quick Ways to Gain or Assess Team Consensus

Agile team leaders often need to gauge or achieve consensus. Learn four of the best ways of doing that.
Defect Management by Policy: A Fast Easy Approach to Prioritizing Bug Fixes

Defect Management by Policy: A Fast Easy Approach to Prioritizing Bug Fixes

Prioritizing bug fixes has always been a challenge in software development. Even though there are fewer bugs with an agile team the short iterations still make it a challenge to prioritize…
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Help Buy Scrum a Design Phase

Scrum has never had a design phase. Perhaps it’s time to fix that. Here’s a humorous take on how to do that.
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Better User Stories: 24 Hours Until Doors Close

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Include All Team Members in Sprint Meetings. Yes, Them Too.

Include All Team Members in Sprint Meetings. Yes, Them Too.

Some agile teams ban certain roles from daily scrums and retrospectives. Here’s why everyone should attend, even the most difficult product owner.
Ten Things the Beatles Taught Me About Being Agile

Ten Things the Beatles Taught Me About Being Agile

We may think the Beatles simply sang about love, walruses and peace. But their songs actually contain profound agile lessons.
The Difference Between a Professional and an Amateur

The Difference Between a Professional and an Amateur

Being paid to do a job doesn’t make someone a professional. This post explains the crucial difference between an amateur and a professional.
My Top 11 Posts of 2017

My Top 11 Posts of 2017

A summary of Mike Cohn’s most popular and engaging blog posts of 2017.
Five Lessons I’m Thankful I Learned in my Agile Career

Five Lessons I’m Thankful I Learned in my Agile Career

Here are five key lessons I learned that were instrumental in my career. See if learning them could help your career, too.
The Four Reasons to Have a Consistent Sprint Length

The Four Reasons to Have a Consistent Sprint Length

A team’s sprints should be the same length every sprint. Here are four reasons why.
Five Scary Things About Adopting Agile

Five Scary Things About Adopting Agile

Read this special Halloween post about five things in agile transitions that are can seem as scary as any ghost or zombie.
Five Story-Splitting Mistakes and How to Stop Making Them

Five Story-Splitting Mistakes and How to Stop Making Them

There are plenty of mistakes a team can make when splitting user stories. Here are five of the most common mistakes and what you can do about them.

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