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Reassigning Points to Validate Estimation

February 3, 2012 No comments

We learned that keeping the backlog sized is priceless and that reassigning points is useless.

Agile, Planning poker, Product Backlog, Scrum, Sprint, Story points, Ten Tales, User Stories

Keeping Progress High and Questions Low

February 1, 2012 No comments

I asked if people could hold off with the questions until the end of the Sprint. It had become too much of a distraction for the team.

Agile, Diana Larsen, Esther Derby, Management, Retrospective, Scrum, Sprint, Ten Tales

Staying Focused at Stand-up

January 27, 2012 No comments

Stand-ups took too long, where we did more talking than we should. Sometimes it took us over an hour for everyone to answer the three questions.

Agile, Daily stand-up, Scrum, Ten Tales, XP

Creating the Motivation to Pair Program

January 23, 2012 2 comments

We asked around if people wanted to pair and most were not interested.

Agile, continuous integration server, Extreme Programming, Kent Beck, Pair programming, Scrum, Software development process, Sprint, Ten Tales, Test-driven development, Top Content, XP

Ten Tales of Positive Change – Introduction

January 23, 2012 No comments

Reading that AgileScout is looking for case studies and not just the theory of Agile, I thought I might start posting these stories from my career. This is an IEEE paper that was first published for Agile2011. The paper too long for one blog post. Leaving the tales as close to the original as I [...]

Agile, Agile coach, Best practices, Extreme Programming, Knowledge management, Organizational aspects, Process Planning, Scrum, ScrumMaster, Software engineering, Software project management, Technology, Ten Tales, XP, Yahoo!

What’s going on?

August 31, 2011 No comments

I am interested in knowing more than if you might be bored at the moment.

Agile, Business, Inquiries, Jeff Patton, Management, Project management, Scrum, Sharon Bowman, Technology

What do you think the INVEST acronym is for #Agile User Stories?

January 29, 2011 No comments

This is a question I asked recently of a newly-formed Scrum team in a User Story Writing workshop. It occurred to me to not just blurt it out and to let them offer suggestions instead. They were very willing to contribute and I’d like to share the answers they came up with:

Agile, Business, Scrum, Sharon Bowman, Training, User Stories

Barely Sufficient Scrum

November 9, 2010 1 comment

What’s the simplest thing that can possibly work and still be called Scrum?

Agile, Scrum

Applying to Become a Certified Scrum Trainer

June 12, 2010 No comments

Throwing Your Hat Into The Ring The Scrum Alliance is accepting new applicants to become Certified Scrum Trainers (CST) and I’ve decided to throw my hat in the ring. If you would like to know why I am applying, please feel free to read my letter of intent.