What is a User Story?
User Stories are one of the most important parts of agile development. Yes, user stories replace those traditional requirements and specifications docs. But they do it in such [...]
What to Do When Agile is Failing (“We’re Doing it Wrong”)
Nothing is quite as frustrating as putting all your time and effort into an agile transformation and not achieving the expected results. You wanted more management of changing priorities, more project visibility, more team [...]
Planning For Your Agile Transformation
If only it could be that easy. But, like an actual rocket firing off into space, there is far more preparation to a successful agile launch than anyone [...]
Damn It! That’s Not the App I Wanted!
Have you ever met with your development team, explained exactly what you wanted, and thought everyone was on the same page? Then the team “goes dark” for three, six, [...]
Getting Your Organization to Embrace Agile
Deciding to embrace an agile process is one thing. Redirecting and refocusing your organization to implement and accept it is quite another.
Here’s A Better Way to Get New Features into Your Older Products
Want to add a new software feature into an old product? Without redesigning or rebuilding it? You can do that easily… with Scrum. And, yes, you can do [...]
What to Do When Your Outsourced App Developer Screws Up
“What do you mean it won’t be ready for another six months?” “When am I going to see something that works?” “That’s not the app we wanted.” [...]
Why MVP Still Works When Building a New Version of an Older App
Find me on:LinkedIn Twitter Some companies think they can’t replace an app with a new version until the new version does everything the old one does.This is a huge [...]
The Sprint’s Almost Over and the Scrum Team is Sitting on Their Hands (You Think)
In my experience, Scrum teams are rarely, if ever, “sitting on their hands.” Lack of visible progress can stem from multiple factors, none of them good when you’re [...]
How to Leverage External Resources and Boost Your Scrum Team’s Effectiveness
An ideal vision of a Scrum team is one where every skill needed is represented, along with appropriate levels of expertise, within a single cross-functional group. This would [...]
Your Scrum Team is Out of Control – And That’s Just How You Want It
The most important aspect of Scrum team structure, and sometimes the hardest to adjust to, is that there is no hierarchy within the team. It's important that managers give their teams the power to make the most appropriate decisions for their projects.
Trainer, Coach, Mentor, Therapist: Being a Manager for a Scrum Team
Find me on: LinkedIn I’ve written a lot about what goes on inside a Scrum team. About teamwork, servant leadership, and empowerment. I’ve also written about leaders on a [...]
