No One Wants to Buy Your Iterations
No One Wants to Buy Your Iterations By Chris Nicola One of the most common agile tools in the toolbox is the good old iteration. Call them what you want, sprints, cycles, releases, but...
Category: SCRUM
Scrum: Writing Better User Stories
Scrum: Writing Better User Stories By Gordon McMahon Recently we had a planning session where I was asked to explain what made a good User Story, so I thought I’d capture that in a...
Commitment Under Pressure
Commitment Under Pressure By Srinivas Chillara The hidden hobbler of Scrum teams: Pressure One common problem Scrum teams face is in the difficulty of meeting their sprint goals, followed by increasing pressure, which seems...
5 Reasons Why a Product Owner Team Might Be a Good Idea
5 Reasons Why a Product Owner Team Might Be a Good Idea By Marc Löffler Last week, I have read an article that stated that the The product owner is a unicorn. I kept...
Epic Breakdown Structure & Types of User Stories
Epic Breakdown Structure & Types of User Stories By Deniz Iren “There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” –...
10 Reasons We Have Daily Stand Up Meetings
10 Reasons We Have Daily Stand Up Meetings By Michael Marsiglia Every day at our company starts with a brief, informal meeting. In the corporate world, “team” meetings leave a bad taste in most...
Why the Standup Meeting Is Important
Why The Standup Meeting Is Important By Eric Lee High-bandwidth Communication If you’re trying to do agile software development, high-bandwidth communication is incredibly important. It’s almost impossible to overstate the urgent need for team...
Planning and Budgeting in Scrum Projects
Planning and Budgeting in Scrum Projects By Jeroen Keppens In a pure waterfall project, processes for planning and budgeting are well defined. Scrum on the other hand provides a very flexible way of development...
How to Write User Stories
How to Write User Stories By Manoj Gupta Definition of User Story “User Story is a description of a requirement and its business benefit, and a set of criteria by which we all agree...
Traditional Project Management vs Scrum
Traditional Project Management vs Scrum By Frank Rios Traditional IT project managers have struggled to use the PMI methodology when it comes to software development for decades. Using the traditional project management methodology for...
