Improving On Traditional Release Burndown Charts

Improving On Traditional Release Burndown Charts

By producing a single chart that shows both a team's rate of progress and the product backlog, we have a single visualization that shows both when a team is likely to finish and what features will…
Prioritizing Tasks Within a Sprint

Prioritizing Tasks Within a Sprint

When a team plans a sprint they make a commitment to complete the user stories they select from the product backlog. It's not a come-hell-or-high-water commitment,
Writing User Stories for Back-end Systems

Writing User Stories for Back-end Systems

I was asked recently how to go about writing user stories for a back-end financial system. This is an interesting example and is a question I get asked a lot, so I thought I should answer it here.…
The US-Russian War of 1981

The US-Russian War of 1981

Sticky ideas and stories aren't necessarily bad; they are just things that change our attention at just the right time and that are so intriguing/compelling/interesting that they spread like…
Patterns of Agile Adoption

Patterns of Agile Adoption

There are many ways to transition to an agile process. Choosing the approach that is most likely to work best for your organization can be critical to a smooth transition.