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Martin Fowler: User Stories

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

My 7 Work Mantras

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

Facilitating a retrospective with 50 people in an hour

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

Building Trust, One Iteration at a Time

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

Why Stretched Teams do Scrumban

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

How I Organize My Work (with 'Remember the Milk')

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

Requirements and Specifications

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

Agile Product Planning: Vision, Strategy, and Tactics

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

Diverse Paths to High-Performance Organizational Culture

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

A Tale of a Too-Hands-Off Manager

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

How to Create a Business Model Canvas in Google Docs

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

Product Ownership in Practice

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

Moving a TFS Git Repository to Github

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

How to Start an Agile Project

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

94 Expert Tips for Agile Teams

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