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…advice on increasing an agile team’s motivation and engagement. You’ll learn why the product owner-development team relationship is the linchpin of sprint-planning success and the primacy of preparation, forward vision, and a value-driven mindset. Final advice includes better communication of expectations with distributed team members and aligning with the evolving…

…the idea of being agile because whenever you’re pulling work in, you’re basing it on the latest feedback and emergent needs so that you can focus on delivering the most value. Listen now for an overview of Kanban as well as common mistakes to avoid. Listen now to discover: 00:48…

…the teams involved, emphasizing agile teamwork by maintaining smaller, more cohesive teams. I find the ideal Scrum team size is 5-7 people. Standard agile advice seems to be 5-9 is the right size. When possible I try to stay on the low end of the range. If the team is…

…more in Spillover in Agile: 3 Ways to Break the Unfinished Work Habit. Mistake #2: Running the Daily Scrum A second mistake I see Scrum Masters make frequently is running the daily scrum meeting. While it's important for the Scrum Master to participate and give an update, they should not…

…how much work an agile team will complete in the future. It is beneficial for longer-term agile planning (looking forward at least four or five iterations). Velocity is not as helpful for short-term planning because it can vary from iteration to iteration (which is why I recommend capacity-driven sprint planning…

…participated in during their pre-agile days. In those meetings, a manager would ask each person to provide an update. And so when teams move to agile, they start by doing daily scrums the same way. It's a natural way to do the meeting and it can be very efficient. Each…

…frustrations in too many agile teams to count. When I observe a retrospective, it goes something like this. The team files into the retro, virtual or in-person, and the facilitator asks the familiar questions: What went well? What didn’t? There’s a long pause. Some people speak up (often the same…

…is a feature of agile project management, not a flaw. The Cost of Over-Refinement When teams try to resolve every open issue during refinement, sessions drag on unnecessarily. You end up with the entire team sitting through detailed discussions that involve a few members. It’s not just inefficient, it’s frustrating.…

Roman Pichler, author of “Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products That Customers Love” and I use the acronym DEEP to summarize key attributes of a good product backlog: Detailed Appropriately. If “detailed appropriately” is the tricky part, the Product Backlog Refinement Guide explains what “enough” looks like and when…

…balancing act. Bring an agile user story into an iteration before it is sufficiently understood and there will be too many open issues for the team to complete it within the iteration. But try to resolve every open issue and add every little detail to a story and you end…

…reflects something important about agile teams as well as life in general: the need to inspect and adapt while staying true to what matters most. Over the years, Mountain Goat Software has taken many forms: books, public classes, coaching, video courses, podcasts, online communities, and AI tools. But the constant…

Different agile teams take different approaches to change. Some teams follow the lead of Extreme Programming and are very accommodating of change within an iteration. These teams will allow their customer or product manager to introduce changes directly within an iteration, effectively swapping the development of one feature for the…

…I stay current on agile news. As a site visitor, I can access old news that is no longer on the home page, so I can access things I remember from the past or that others mention to me. As a site visitor, I can email news items to the…

…for your use on agile projects. These tools are based on ideas described in Mike Cohn's books. You can read more information about agile project management training expert and Certified Scrum Trainer, Mike Cohn If you find that these free agile tools are not enough and you would like more…