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Story Points – Leave Them, Don’t Love Them
Story Points Are A Reflection! Last week Anthony Mersino published a blog entry titled Story Points – Love Them or Leave Them? He ended his blog entry with the question, “What do you think?” I know it...
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When Do Story Points Make Sense?
Story Points: No Parking Story points are a planning tool that has proponents and opponents. Like most tools, story points are not prima facie evil, it is only through misuse that they are problematic....
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Agile Techniques: Why Do We Keep Screwing Up Stand-Up Meetings
Not a status meeting! The stand-up meeting is a simple meeting that Agile teams hold on a daily basis to plan and synchronize activities. The Scrum Guide states: “The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute...
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Agile Techniques: Why Daily Stand-Ups Are Not Always Right Answer
Every Day? Daily Scrums or stand-ups are a fixture of teams, agile or not, whether they are fulfilling goal identified in the Scrum Guide or not. The Scrum Guide identifies the Daily Scrum (often...
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Agile Techniques: When Daily Scrums Don’t Work
Sometimes doing what book says is out of the question! When a Daily Scrum or daily stand-up are not used for micro-planning and collaborating to achieve the team’s goal, they are occurring for a...
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Agile Techniques: Making The Daily Scrum Work
The Scrum Guide states the Daily Scrum is an event which the Development Team plans work for the next 24 hours. Far too often teams are working on a mixture of items that are not related to each...
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SPaMCAST 559 – Time To Reinvent Agile, A Conversation With Al Shalloway
http://www.spamcast.net Listen Now! Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music Listen on Spotify! SPaMCAST 559 part one of our interview with Al Shalloway. I am breaking two...
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SPaMCAST 561 – Making The Daily Scrum Work, Product Owners, Essays and...
http://www.spamcast.net Direct Playback Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music Listen on Spotify! In SPaMCAST 561 we discuss making the Daily Scrum work for the mission it...
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Agile Techniques: Three Ways Ways To Mess Up Sprint Goals
Without a goal, it is easy to wander aimlessly! Sprint goals are a statement of the value that teams strive to deliver. The statement provides a guide for teams so they can focus on the “why” rather...
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SPaMCAST 565 – Three Ways Ways To Mess Up Sprint Goals, Product Roadmaps,...
http://www.spamcast.net Play Now! Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music Listen on Spotify! SPaMCAST 565 tackles three ways to mess up sprint goals. Sprint goals are a...
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Five Attributes For Writing Useful Sprint Goals
Climbing towards better sprint goals! Sprint goals are an important tool for describing the value a team is striving to deliver. Goals can be used to rally the team and to bring the energy of disparate...
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Components of Good Sprint Goals
Look up! Sprint goals provide direction, they provide energy, and they communicate to the outside world. A sprint goal sounds like a simple, straightforward statement that a product owner should be...
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Mapping Meeting Types to Scrum
A mad house or a meeting? Depending on whom you ask and/or when you ask, meetings are a bane or boon. Scrum practitioners often call the standard meetings ‘ceremonies’. The term confers a huge amount...
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Updated Simple Sprint Planning Checklist
So the answer is . . . A minor update for Sprint Planning in late 2019! At some point planning for planning needs to give way to planning. Planning identifies a goal and helps to envision the steps...
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SPaMCAST 568 – Agile Mindset, Passion, and Experimentation, An Interview With...
http://www.spamcast.net Play Now! Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music Listen on Spotify! This week in SPaMCAST 568 marks the return of Sandeep Koorse. Sandeep brings...
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SPaMCAST 570 – Sprint Goals, Values, Essays and Discussions
http://www.spamcast.net Play Now! Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music Listen on Spotify! I apologize for the delay in publication — ahhh the vagueries of travel!...
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Prioritizing The Backlog: A Flow of Work
Lining things up! Items on any backlog proliferate. Product backlogs used in agile and lean development approaches are no different. Many outsiders have the mistaken notion that once on the list that...
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SPaMCAST 573 – Backlog Prioritization Workflow, Real-life Application...
http://www.spamcast.net Play Now! Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music SPaMCAST 573 features our essay using a workflow to prioritize a backlog. Items on any backlog...
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How Much Meeting Time?
Meeting Time Is Not Always The High Point Of The Day If you have ever performed as a Scrum Master or agile coach you have been asked about the overhead in Scrum. Overhead is almost always a codeword...
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Does Meeting Overhead Scale In Scrum?
Is a baby just a scaled down adult? One of the most common complaints about using Scrum is the amount of meeting time. In How Much Meeting Time, we used the meeting length recommendations from the...
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