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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Category: Agile Practices
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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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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Anchoring your Product Backlogs -- Not All User [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company Continuing from our last post, I want to discuss some of the advantages of taking this “an [...]
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Anchoring your Product Backlogs -- Not All User [...]
If you don’t know, I’ve got some opinions about Scrum, the Product Owner role, Backlogs, and User Stories. I’ve written a book about Product Ownership and I spend a great [...]
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I Just Want to be “Accepted”, part-2
In part one of this article, I set the stage for what basic acceptance tests should look like and how they help the “conversations” within your agile development [...]
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I Just Want to be “Accepted”, part-1
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company Have you heard of the “3’C’s” of User Stories? It’s a heuristic to remind storywriters of the [...]
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