How Using Checklists for Software Development Help Agile Teams Deliver More Business Value
Process documentation is incredibly useful but it can get lengthy. Learn how we use supporting checklists to help a team member navigate each aspect of our Scrum projects.
Shipping Early Helps You Adapt To Change
The Agile Manifesto states: "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software." Here we discuss how shipping early empowers agile development teams to adapt to changes in order to meet that priority.
Scrum Ceremonies: A Key Way to Meet Your Business Goals
There are four types of Scrum ceremonies. This interview with one of our Ascendle Product Owners breaks down each of them for us.
ScrumMasters and Product Owners, Do You Use Checklists in Your Work?
Listen to the ScrumMaster Toolbox Podcast to hear Diana explain how she uses checklists in Scrum! Some team members might view checklists as “more bureaucracy” but in [...]
Using Business Goals to Keep Development on Track
Transcript I talk to a lot of people who struggle with getting the value out of their development teams that they expect, especially when they move to an [...]
User Story Acceptance Criteria
User stories are a critical element of the agile software development process. But they’re so different from traditional software requirement documents that many Scrum teams struggle to get them right.
Why We Love Agile Estimation (And You Should, Too!)
I once spent an entire month creating an estimate for an eight-month project. “Why the hell does software estimation have to be so hard?!”, I thought. It’s not hard. I just didn’t know the right process back then.