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Best Practices Are Dangerous When Adopting Agile

Like sirens singing to us from the rocks, best practices can tempt us to relax and stop the effort of continuous improvement that is essential to Scrum.

There Is No End State When Transitioning to Agile

There can be no end state in a process that calls for continuous improvement.

Balancing Anticipation and Adaptation

A big part of an organization’s becoming agile is finding the appropriate balance between anticipation and adaptation, as Jim Highsmith wrote in Agile Software Development Ecosystems. The…

Presentation on the Benefits of Agile

Chapter 1 of Succeeding with Agile summarizes of the published research on the benefits of adopting an agile…

How to Know if Scrum Is Right for Your Project

After years of studying the problem, I've come up with a foolproof way to determine if Scrum is right for a given project.

Using a One-Handed Clock to Convey Project Goals

The One-Handed Clock is a useful visual metaphor that can be hung in a team room.

Bugs on the Product Backlog

The ideal situation is to put the bugs right onto the product backlog.

Mountain Goat Software Client’s Scrum Program Leads to “Best Place to Work”

Ultimate Software has been named the best medium-sized company to work for in the United States. In 2005,…

Using a Task Board with One Remote Team Member

What should we do in the case when the team really likes having a task board, but when one team member is remote?

The Ideal Agile Workspace

Each person on the team should ideally be able to see each other person on the team.

How Do Story Points Relate to Hours?

I'm often asked about the relationship between story points and hours. People who ask are usually looking for me to say something like

A Requirements Challenge

Think of a function in MS Word that is a new function, and not just a change in the quality of those functions.

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Best Practices Are Dangerous When Adopting Agile

There Is No End State When Transitioning to Agile

Balancing Anticipation and Adaptation

Presentation on the Benefits of Agile

How to Know if Scrum Is Right for Your Project

Using a One-Handed Clock to Convey Project Goals

Bugs on the Product Backlog

Mountain Goat Software Client’s Scrum Program Leads to “Best Place to Work”

Using a Task Board with One Remote Team Member

The Ideal Agile Workspace

How Do Story Points Relate to Hours?

A Requirements Challenge