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 …
Three Strategies for Fitting Refactoring into Your Sprints It can be challenging to find time for refactoring. These approaches will help.
My Favorite Resource for Agile Advice, Support, and Answers If I could make only one recommendation for an agile resource to have in 2021, this would be it…
The Three Types of Requirements on Any Project Deadlines are often missed because teams fail to consider emergent requirements.
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.
Brand New Estimating with Story Points Video Course Now Available Doors are now open (for a limited time only) to my new course: Estimating with Story Points.
VIDEO: Overcoming People Problems to Get Good Estimates In this final video on creating estimates with story points, I help you overcome one of the biggest …
VIDEO: How Teams and Stakeholders Get Hung Up on Perfect Estimates This video helps you align stakeholder and team expectations when creating estimates (and those …
