Agile: adjective – able to move quickly and easily.
Agile User Stories are short, simple descriptions of a feature or function told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability represented by the story, usually a customer. They focus on the result or value that the user or customer gets. User stories can be big (but not …
It’s a pretty tired discussion in my house: Multi-threading, multi-tasking, the cost of context switching, etc. Especially with a teenager at the dinner table… So I found a nifty exercise to drive the point home. Supplies Needed: One volunteer who considers themselves an expert context-switcher / multi-threader Three decks of …
The Challenge In the pursuit of delivering business value, there is no shortage of obstacles to overcome to achieving high levels of trust, good communication, and the ability to have productive conflict on agile scrum or kanban teams. Those impediments have the potential to restrict continuous improvement and get in the way of …
There are a number of great scrum learning games “out there” and this one was developed by Alistair Cockburn. It is a classic that’s great for Shu level teams. I’ve taken a few liberties, inspected and adapted, and offer up my own recipe. Nano Incremental Development Cockburn designed the exercise to help people practice …
tl;dr: What do we need to know in order to commit to doing this work? “Ready are you? What know you of ready?” – Yoda Does your scrum team ever have cards that get carried thru 2 or 3 sprints until they hit the done column? Have you ever grabbed …
