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Admitting to the Real Date

February 13, 2012 No comments

I agree The rate that we were now building the product at had our team estimating we would have something out after the date in the contract.

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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.

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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.

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Creating the Motivation to Pair Program

January 23, 2012 2 comments

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

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Top Content

January 11, 2012 No comments

Top 10 pages visited on the site.

  1. Agile Team Members – Roles and Responsibilities
  2. Kanban Ground Rules Example for a Specific Team
  3. 12 Agile Adoption Failure Modes by Jean Tabaka
  4. Naked Planning Explained – Kanban in the Small
  5. Cougar’s donation is pending
  6. What do you think the INVEST acronym is for #Agile User Stories?
  7. Setting a Minimum Bar for Scrum
  8. Applying to Become a Certified Scrum Trainer
  9. Leading a Retrospective Before Introducing Kanban to a Team
  10. Whole Team Incentives – Redeeming Features for Rewards
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What a Pile of Product Backlog

May 29, 2009 No comments

Is the Product Backlog a list of prioritized “stuff to do”? Does it include defects, tasks and feature requests? What else?

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Death by Scrum Meeting

March 4, 2009 2 comments

I recently received an email from a senior-level manager, who raises a valid question about all the meetings associated with Scrum.

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How do you handle Sprint review and retrospective for multiple Scrum teams?

October 22, 2008 No comments

If there are multiple teams working off of one Product Backlog, how best to reflect and close the iteration?

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Whole Team Incentives – Redeeming Features for Rewards

August 24, 2008 No comments

Attempting to increase collaboration, and reduce competition.

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Setting a Minimum Bar for Scrum

May 24, 2008 No comments

What is absolutely necessary to do for Scrum and Sprints? A check-list like this will have a prescribed, controlling feel of enforcement.

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