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Why I Don’t Use Story Points for Sprint Planning

I don't use story points for sprint planning because story points are a useful long-term measure. They are not useful in the short-term.

Don’t Average During Planning Poker

While I want teams to come to agreement, I don't care how heartfelt the agreement is.

Salesforce.com’s Three-Month Transition to Agile

Learn how Salesforce.com successfully completed one of the quickest, large-scale, big-bang agile transitions ever.

To Re-estimate or not; that is the question

When we estimate it is important that we not mix knowledge-before-the-fact with knowledge-after-the-fact.

Looking Forward to the Next Twelve Months

It’s exciting to think about what the coming year holds for agile software development and for those doing it.

Farm Credit Services of America Gets Results with Agile

Mountain Goat Software client Farm Credit Services of America has been doing Scrum for two years now and with…

Programmers and Testers Can Work on Things Smaller Than User Stories

A common misperception is that testers cannot do any work during an iteration until the programmers finish a user story or product backlog item.

Agile Is Listed CNN’s List of 50 Who Matter Now

CNN has a list of 50 “people, products, trends, and ideas that are transforming the world of…

Correct Use of a Release Sprint

The release sprint is not a dumping ground for sloppy work.

Enterprise and Scrum

The two best things about this book are that it: (1) provides a framework for adopting Scrum across an…

Book Review

Advice on Conducting the Scrum of Scrums Meeting

The scrum of scrums meeting is an important technique in scaling Scrum to large project teams. These meetings allow clusters of teams to discuss their work, focusing especially on areas of overlap and…

Google / bayXP Presentation on YouTube

Mike Cohn's March 20, 2007 presentation at Google for bayXP is now available on YouTube. The title of the…

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