Help! My Team’s Sprint Backlog is Out of Control!
Mystery stories? No points, no details, no naming conventions, technical tasks, ad hoc requests… Help! My Sprint Backlog is out of Control!
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More Agile Great Debates – Part 9
In this episode of “More Agile Great Debates,” I tackle five more topics: Generalist vs. Specialist, Quality, Canceling Sprints, and more!
More Agile Great Debates, Part 8
This time on “More Agile Great Debates”: incomplete backlogs, improvements, “special” Sprints, people swapping, and cross-functionality.
The Great User Story Debate: To Assign or Not to Assign on Agile Teams
Should Sprint Backlog Items (aka User Stories) be assigned to an individual, or left un-assigned? This is my latest Agile great debate.
More Agile Great Debates, Part 3
Part 3 of my blog series covering “More Agile Great Debates” delves into five more debate topics that I hope will spark some conversations.
What happens when you don’t have a fully cross-functional Scrum Team?
So, you have a Scrum Team. But does your team have all the necessary cross-functional skills to get to a “done” increment each Sprint?
What happens in Scrum without a Definition of Ready?
I have long advocated that Scrum Teams have a “Definition of Ready”; if you don’t have one, there are many potential negative consequences.