…with Janet Gregory of “Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams” and the newly published “More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team”. I highly recommend both of these books—in fact, I recommend reading everything Lisa and Janet write. In the following post, Lisa argues the…

…meetings for a team’s agile process. The second type of time is plannable time. This is the time that team members can plan to use on the real work of the sprint. A team member does not, however, want to fill the sprint too full. Team members need to leave…

…being done by other agile teams in the organization: get better at this, learn how to do that, figure out how to do more of this and how to do the other thing earlier each sprint. Occasionally, however, a team may have something they don’t want to share. Some examples…

…from the Feature-Driven Development agile process. Feature-Driven Development (FDD) remains a minor player on the overall agile stage despite having been around since 1997. Originally invented by Jeff De Luca, FDD has much to recommend it in an era of interest in scaling agile. Wikipedia has a good description of…

…would be a product. Agile consulting services would be a product. A painting would be a product. A product can be a something physical (the chair). It can be a digital product (Microsoft Office, an ebook or streaming videos). It also can be a service (consulting on how to adopt…

A Note on the Term “Chief Product Owner” The labels “chief product owner” and “product line owner” are the ones I generally favor, but they are representative only; use others if you wish. In addition to these, I’ve seen both program owner, super product owner, area owner and feature owner…

…suited for development with agile because some reports are complicated and take more than a sprint to develop. I'd argue that the opposite is the case. When something will take a long time to develop, that's exactly when I want to use a process that forces me to get early…

…to mention that the Agile Values & Principles are just as much a key to an organization’s success as the Scrum Values are. I want to explain how to be a Servant Leader rather than a top-down manager. But I usually start by telling them to focus on facilitating highly…

…right way. Even experienced agile teams find themselves going through a lot of trial and error to run a workshop that delivers great results. If you are the kind of person who learns better by watching than by reading, you might prefer to learn about story-writing workshops and other user…

New agile teams sometimes question the rules of Scrum. They wonder about the timing and purpose of the Scrum meetings. They contemplate doubling up on the various Scrum roles. They doubt whether they can ever get anything meaningful done in just two weeks. Maybe that’s why teams who are new…

…Why do iterations in Agile start from Wednesday to Tuesday rather than Monday to Friday? 09:00 Question 2: Are Burndown charts even useful? 16:14 Question 3: Who decides sprint duration in a Scrum project? 18:50 Question 4: As a Scrummaster, how do you deal with people being late or refusing…

…a book about this (Agile Estimating and Planning) and will share his insights on this important topic. References and resources mentioned in the show User Stories Applied - by Mike Cohn Better User Stories course - by Mike Cohn Billboard interview with Paul McCartney where he talks about using personal…

…look at an alternative agile process. Kanban, in particular, may better fit your needs. But don’t call it Scrum if you’re not using sprints. Can You Do Scrum Without … a Daily Scrum? Can you do Scrum without a daily scrum meeting? Yeah, kind of. In today’s hyper-connected world, team…

…big deal in the agile world. And that’s as it should be. Inspect and adapt are both important words. But they belong together. There’s no point inspecting if you don’t go on to use what you learn to adapt. And adapting without first inspecting results in arbitrary changes. Unfortunately, some…

…That’s why in the agile estimating method of Planning Poker, the majority of the cards are small numbers. We can estimate pretty well in that range. If you need to estimate outside an order of magnitude—and there can be good reasons for doing so—build up to that gradually. Estimate a…