Is NO The Right Response from Agile Teams?
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company No is a very tricky word. I often talk about agile teams needing to “just say No” to various [...]
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Category: Product Ownership
Effective Scrum Product Organizational Patterns [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company In part one of this series; I focused more on guidelines for finding and establishing Product [...]
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Effective Scrum Product Organizational Patterns [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company Roughly fifty percent of the organizations I visit who are “going Agile” struggle with the [...]
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Sprint Reviews—Do you need to demo the “har [...]
Recently a young engineer stopped me after a class I shared at a national conference and was asking questions. The context in this case was this: We were talking about the [...]
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User Stories vs. Market Stories
I read a recent article/blog post by Steve Johnson where he made the case for something he calls “market stories”. Here’s a snippet from the post: Lately I’ve been [...]
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Splitting Stories – What do you mean you' [...]
I saw the following series of snippets in a LinkedIn discussion on the Agile ALM tool Rally. Bear with me as you read through them to get the context for our discussion… Origi [...]
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Taking the “User” out of User Stories
In my travels I spend a good deal of my time discussing Scrum Product Ownership, Product Backlogs, and inevitably User Stories. Stories are containers or artifacts, which have [...]
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Less than 10% Information Density!
There is a strong need for ‘conversation’ as part of the requirement process—continuous, reflective, emergent, and ongoing communication. The conversations in this case [...]
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Agile Genesis Questions— Why? and What’s [...]
One of the ideas that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately surrounds the notion of feature value in agile teams. It’s driven by this typical value flow of agile work— The [...]
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