How You’ll Probably Learn to Split Features
This is a good post that talks about breaking down user stories. It talks about patterns that teams will typically follow to break down stories. It gives some good examples and explanations as to...
View ArticleWhy Burn-up Chart Is Better Than Burn-down Chart
I’ve always favored a burn-down chart myself as I’m usually driving towards a fixed date and it seems easier to me to determine how likely meeting that date is from the burn-down chart, but Pawel makes...
View ArticleMy Sprint is too Short!
Good post over on the Agile Business Change Blog by Stan Wade about a very common problem: Teams continue to fail to get stories done in a single sprint and by default believe that their sprint is too...
View ArticleDeadlines Kill
Good post from Tobias. He takes a look at an article by Tom DeMarco, and specifically this one paragraph. So, how do you manage a project without controlling it? Well, you manage the people and...
View ArticleUser Stories are not Enough
Roman Pichler had a good blog entry recently titled User Stories are not Enough to Create a Great User Experience. This was a great read and contains some great ideas and advice. I’d actually go a...
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Working with the GO Product Roadmap
I’m really liking the GO Product Roadmap from Roman Pichler. I’ve seen roadmaps for a long time that have given the time frame and feature focus for that time frame, but I really like the addition of...
View ArticleXP is the Mac of Agile
Jonathan has a good post over on Agile Warrior comparing XP to the Mac. XP was great, but has been outpaced by something simpler and easier to adopt similar to how the Mac was outpaced by the PC....
View ArticleAnchoring your Product Backlogs — RGalen Consulting
Is your team struggling with not getting stories done during a sprint? Or are your sprints full of lots of little stories that don’t seem to be related at all leaving you feeling like you are jumping...
View ArticleDon’t Equate Story Points to Hours – Mountain Goat Software
Mike Cohn continues his several post series about story points with a good explanation of why we shouldn’t equate story points to hours. It defeats the whole purpose of using points and doesn’t allow...
View ArticleLeSS – A Framework to Scale Scrum and Agile
There was a good post over on the Look Forward Blog about LeSS, an alternative to SAFe when it comes to scaling agile and scrum. It sounds like a promising approach and I’m looking forward to learning...
View ArticleWhy Going from a Shorter Sprint Length to a Longer Sprint Length is Rarely a...
If we unpack the reasoning behind why teams might wish to make sprints longer, certain anti-patterns tend to emerge. Anti-pattern 1: Teams are spending too much time preparing for sprint reviews/demos....
View ArticleThe Newest Craze in Agile: Simplicity and UN-Scaling | Bob Galen
I think that all of the scaling hoopla is just that. I don’t believe we have a distributed team problem or a scaling problem in today’s small or large-scale agile contexts. And huge applications don’t...
View ArticleRelease Planning at Atlassian
One of Atlassian’s product managers recently published a blog post outlining how they do release planning (in Confluence of course, but could happen in any wiki/intranet tool). What I like about it is...
View ArticleEstimating Placeholder Stories
Andrew had another good post over on Leading Agile, this one about whether you should estimate placeholder stories. I liked Andrew’s post as I’ve had this same discussion with several clients recently...
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