Planning is the act of thinking about the future. Sometimes that future holds risk and uncertainty. In those cases we plan more than when the future is highly predictable as a hundredth visit to your…
Removing the large values from a deck of Planning Poker cards is like deciding to strike millions and billions from our vocabulary just because our bank balances are only in the thousands.
The topic of how well a team estimates two point stories relative to one point stories (and so on) has come up in a couple of comments and replies on this blog recently, so let's discuss it.…
I'm in the midst of reading Specification by Example by Gojko Adzic. I'm a big fan of his earlier, Bridging the Communication Gap book so I've been anxious to read his new one. I'll…
Scrum Masters need to protect agile teams from more than just overly aggressive product owners. Learn why a team’s own shortcomings can be equally problematic in this blog post from Mike Cohn.
I want to show a real easy way to put user stories in a spreadsheet-based product backlog. I wrote this after seeing someone tweet a screen capture of a product backlog I made nine years ago and…
An article I read in 1988 has always stuck with me. The article was “Time–The Next Source of Competitive Advantage” by George Stalk in the Harvard Business Review. The article came…
Left unattended, a product backlog can become large and hard to work with. If your backlog has reached this point, take some time to do some spring cleaning.
