
User Stories are chunks of desired behavior of a software system. They are widely used in agile software approaches to divide up a large amount of...
0 replies - 15904 views - 04/24/13 by Martin Fowler in Articles

This morning I decided to share my "work matras" with my followers on Twitter:
Right now I keep them in a note in Notes, but I would really like to...
0 replies - 1708 views - 04/23/13 by Oscar Berg in Articles

As one of the volunteers at Agile 2012 I was honored to be asked to facilitate the volunteer retrospective.
There were a few constraints that made this...
0 replies - 1770 views - 04/23/13 by Steve Rogalsky in Articles

A while back I talked to a CEO of a contract development shop. He
wondered how Agile could help him with fixed price, fixed scope
contracts to...
1 replies - 1820 views - 04/19/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

A few years ago Corey Ladas wrote an article about
an Agile approach he called “Scrumban”. As the name suggests, this is a
variant of Scrum with...
0 replies - 1349 views - 04/18/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles

Frequently people ask me, “How can you be so productive?”
The question seems a bit strange to me, because I often consider myself
not productive at...
0 replies - 1915 views - 04/17/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!”
which I...
0 replies - 1624 views - 04/17/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles

Product planning is just as important in an agile context as it is in a traditional setting. Unfortunately, some product owners
focus so much on the product...
0 replies - 2607 views - 04/15/13 by Roman Pichler in Articles

There is no single path or prescription for high-performance organizational culture. Increasingly companies are abandoning the traditional “modern...
0 replies - 1335 views - 04/15/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles

I recently worked with a team that was struggling. One of the team
members, Tad, wasn’t playing by the rules the team had established. When
the team...
0 replies - 2856 views - 04/14/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

A Business Model Canvas
is an easy to use, lightweight and powerful tool for anyone looking to
sketch out business models. It is quickly becoming the...
0 replies - 3902 views - 04/14/13 by David Bland in Articles

Scrum has simple rules about team composition. There is the Development Team plus exactly one Scrum Master and exactly one Product Owner. Due to potential...
0 replies - 1498 views - 04/10/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles

We gave using the git support in TFS the old college try but the friction and issues were just too much so we decided to move our repository over to...
0 replies - 1114 views - 04/09/13 by Derik Whittaker in Articles

During the recent panel debate in Colombo Agile Meetup my colleague Lasantha Bandara asked the following question:
How do you start an agile project and...
0 replies - 1423 views - 04/08/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles

Here are 10 articles from 10 different authors that provide valuable advice for Scrum teams.
These articles are in no particular order, so feel free to...
0 replies - 5576 views - 04/05/13 by Hamid Shojaee in Articles