Using Risk to Prioritize Your Product Back [...]
When teaching Product Owner workshops, I talk about the need to get a prioritized product backlog. For some students, this is easy but many people struggle. They’re used [...]
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Category: Agile Practices
A New (Old) Look at Backlog Refinement
I recently heard someone say “I think backlog grooming1 and sprint planning are the same thing”. I can see exactly why someone might think that. So I thought we [...]
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Technical Spikes in Agile and Scrum
Technical spikes are a great way for teams to scope out some work that they don’t fully understand before they begin work on it. Spikes are used by teams to suss out or do [...]
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An Alternative Way to Assign User Story Poi [...]
One of the hardest concepts for some teams to understand, especially when they first start using user stories, is that of story points. “What is a point?” they [...]
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The 3 C's Refresher - Cards, Conversations, and [...]
When I train agile teams – especially Scrum teams – I always bring up my experience as a developer starting with eXtreme Programming (at least my company’s [...]
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Story Design – When, Where, and How Mu [...]
I received the following question from a colleague a few days ago: Name: Randy Raypole Subject: User story design work Message: With regards to team understanding of stories. I& [...]
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Backlog Refinement...Are you doing it “Right� [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company Jason Tanner is a colleague of mine here in the Cary, NC area. He’s a Certified Scrum [...]
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Lean vs. Robust Backlog
I recently received the following email from Dwight Kingdon at Mindtree: I’d appreciate your thoughts on “Just in time” Product Backlogs. I’ve recently run across a [...]
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User Stories and Mousetraps: A Lifecycle of [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company In part-1 of this series we began the exploration of user stories from “concept to executio [...]
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User Stories and Mousetraps: A Lifecycle of [...]
I teach quite a few teams about User Stories. Most struggle with the concept, at least initially. One of the key challenges for many is the notion that stories are iterative. Th [...]
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