Do you hold frequent Design Review Meetings?
Trouble getting your development team on the same page with your User Stories? Difficulty figuring out how to get initial “rough” sizing on your backlog items so you can better prioritize or groom your backlog? Here is an approach to Design Review meetings you can customize, tweak and change to suit your shop and teams. This [...]
Agile Principles – why do I care?
Are you an Agile shop? Have you just been exposed to terms such as Scrum, daily scrums, Sprint/Iteration planning, Demo’s, retrospectives and more? Did you know about the 12 Agile Principles? Back in 2006 we discussed the implementation plan at our shop and laid out the pros and cons of Agile. We wrote down the [...]
Story Points – do they really matter?
There is so much talk about planning in Scrum. The basic questions are around how you handle your sizing of user stories. Also related is the discussion about how to handle situations where a story is sized but doesn’t get done in a Sprint. Do you carry the points over, resize and so on. Here [...]
The Product Owner Ready Board
A few months back I discovered a blog post discussing the use of a Ready Board. The author, Serge Beaumont, lays out a well described argument for the importance of a Ready Board. We do a great job in Agile focusing in on the function of the team. We write and learn in certification courses [...]