If you’ve been an agilist for a while you’ve probably seen the debate on estimating items in your product backlog. One of the common methods is for the team to estimate in “story points”. These estimates are unitless. The number doesn’t reflect “days” or “hours”. It’s a relative estimate to…

In agile, specifically scrum, at the end of your time developing the team has a sprint review followed by a retrospective. So I’ll present I am a team of one and the time box was for all of 2021 (which is not what Scrum Guide recommends). From the Scrum Guide…

This is the first in a series of posts documenting my experience in ways to get a team started on scrum. A new team of 3–9 people can learn the basics of scrum very quickly. …

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I enjoy helping scrum teams deliver increments that delight customers. I’ve noticed a few common struggles new scrum teams have to deliver incrementally. If not maintained properly, the product backlog is destined not to be the single source of work for a team and can collapse a scrum team. Problem…