Agile Epic vs. User Story: What’s the Difference?
User stories are a fundamental component of any agile development. They are lightweight requirements that represent new functionality that delivers value to business stakeholders.
SPIDR: An Alternative Method for Splitting User Stories
By keeping user stories small, it’s much easier for the team to do a little bit of everything all the time, a key principle of Scrum. SPIDR is one method of splitting stories in order to fit them into a sprint.
T-Shaped Scrum Teams: Speeding Throughput via Broader Skill Sets
Underperforming, over-specialized Scrum teams are a problem of the past. Start assembling T-shaped Scrum teams instead.
Strategies for Product Leaders to Balance Software Development Risk and Innovation
Striking the right balance between innovation and risk when developing software products can signal the difference between success and failure.
Failure is Not an F-Word: Reframe Failure as Experience
Failure is an essential ingredient in the learning process, so let's reframe failure as the learning experience it is.
Increase the Speed, Predictability, and Quality of Your Development Teams
Despite overwhelming enthusiasm for agile, many companies still don’t ship software as consistently or quickly as their competitors. For these companies, determining where tools and coaching [...]
Free Customer Journey Mapping [Template]
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Free Value Stream Mapping Assessment [Template]
Download our free Value Stream Mapping Template! Ready for deployment, includes conditional formatting to quickly identify bottlenecks and constraints.
Dual-Track Agile and Spikes: Secrets of Maximum Agility
Learn how this approach to agile of dividing your work into "discovery" and "delivery" tracks can save you time and money while developing better software products.
Complete Guide to Communities of Practice [eBook]
Download our eBook, "Complete Guide to Communities of Practice" today! Learn how agile practitioners knock down silos to maximize knowledge-share.
Free Agile Assessment That Goes Beyond Maturity [Template]
Download our eBook, "People, Processes, & Tools: a Framework for Maximum Agility" today! Discover the framework that breaks down specific roles and activities to set your team up for success and maximum agility.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Software Estimating [Template]
In this post, we will walk you step by step through the process of Software Development Estimating, explaining how to use our template to create an estimate.