Product Vision
The diversity in perspective within a team brings great value, because it raises the probability that the team will overlook no great idea. Admitting multiple perspectives and soli
NOPE. Scrum Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Not Working (For You)
A dialogue from the movie NOPE goes like this: What if I told you that today you’ll leave here different. I’m talking to you. Right here, you are going to witness an ab
Personal Value Stream Mapping
As a project manager, a scrum master, a team lead, or even as an agile coach I’ve wondered from time to time about the true value that I bring to a team. You see, to me it is ent
Sprint planning for an interrupt-driven team
Many teams have at least a moderate ability to plan and control their time. They’re able to say, “We will work on these things over the coming sprint,” and have a
Winning a war without firing a single shot!
Agile transformation, undoubtedly two words that strike fear into the heart of any product organization. It should be an exciting time, with tough conversations, compromises,
GETTING BEST ESTIMATES OF STORY SIZE
In software development, effort estimation is the process of predicting the most realistic amount of effort (expressed in terms of person-hours or money) r
OPTIMIZING SCRUM VELOCITY
Viewed from Agile, the Scrum velocity is a measure of a team’s productivity towards delivering features over time. Velocity is calculated by Story Points in a Fibonacci View
How to (Really) Improve Process Efficiency
The definition of process efficiency is essentially “the amount of effort or input required to produce your business’s product.” For instance, if it takes 300 workers to make
Treating “Impedimentia”
Why is it so hard to come up with impediments sometimes? I know that impediments are all around me – literally everywhere I look. So why is it that when we do the daily standup a
Story Completion – A Pain in the ‘neck’!
The word ‘neck’ can be replaced with an appropriate one! In our last sprint we were not able to complete nearly 60% of the stories in our sprint. On the last day before