Critiquing One of My Own Real User Stories

Critiquing One of My Own Real User Stories

In case you haven’t noticed, a few months ago we launched Front Row Agile, a site dedicated to video training courses on agile and Scrum. This has placed me in the role of product owner for the…
The Main Benefit of Story Points

The Main Benefit of Story Points

If story points are an estimate of the time (effort) involved in doing something, why not just estimate directly in hours or days? Why use points at all? There are multiple good reasons to estimate…
Ray Bradbury on the Benefits of Short Releases

Ray Bradbury on the Benefits of Short Releases

In 2001, author Ray Bradbury gave a talk at the annual Writer’s Symposium by the Sea in San Diego. Fortunately for those of us who were not there, his speech was video recorded and is available.…
My Primary Criticism of Scrum

My Primary Criticism of Scrum

On the first day of my Certified ScrumMaster course, we go over the agenda for the two days. I point out that one topic we’ll cover will be “meetings.” I usually point out that Scrum…
Choose Backlog Items That Serve Two Purposes

Choose Backlog Items That Serve Two Purposes

I've been playing a fair amount of Go lately. If you're not familiar with Go, it's a strategy game that originated in China 2,500 years ago. It's along the lines of chess, but it's…
Adding Decorated User Roles to Your User Stories

Adding Decorated User Roles to Your User Stories

When writing user stories there are, of course, two parts: user and story. The user is embedded right at the front of stories when using the most common form of writing user stories: As a I so that .…
Introduction to Scrum PPT

Introduction to Scrum PPT

You may have heard Scrum is one of the leading agile software development processes. With more than 650,000…
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