When Sprints End Badly
Of course it’s going to happen. No matter how good an agile team is, eventually they’ll have a tough sprint and something bad will happen. They’ll miss the work they [...]
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Category: Agile Coaching
“Definition-of-Done”...1 More Time...
This update is from the STP conference I’m attending in Denver the week of November 3, 2014. Software Test Professionals is a conference mostly focused towards testing, so the [...]
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Definition-of-Done -- Are we there yet? par [...]
In the last post we explored three levels of my four level model for Done-ness Criteria. Now I’ll wrap up the model and explore some other aspects of DoD. I hope it inspir [...]
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Definition-of-Done -- Are we there yet? par [...]
Introduction There are several terms used for it within agile contexts. Sometimes you hear: Done Definition of Done or DoD Done-Ness Criteria Acceptance Criteria Release Criteri [...]
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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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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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User Stories: Ready, Set, Go! part-2
We left the last post sharing some of Roman Pichler’s thoughts around readiness. Let’s continue… Another way of Describing Ready I personally like a checklist [...]
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User Stories: Ready, Set, Go! part-1
Have you ever entered a Sprint taking on a User Story that you later regretted? For example:
- One that you should have broken down a wee bit more?
- Or one where the team had [...]
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