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May 21

Don’t Give Up on Story Points (Yet)

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…

Scrum

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Don’t Give Up on Story Points (Yet)
Don’t Give Up on Story Points (Yet)

Dec 28, 2021

My Personal 2021 Review and Retrospective

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…

Scrum

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My Personal 2021 Review and Retrospective
My Personal 2021 Review and Retrospective

Jun 26, 2021

Starting Scrum: Basics and Backlog

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. …

Scrum

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Starting Scrum: Basics and Backlog
Starting Scrum: Basics and Backlog

Jun 13, 2021

Welcome

This site is about my observations of working with agile teams. Opinions are mine. Comments are welcome.

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Welcome

This site is about my observations of working with agile teams. Opinions are mine. Comments are welcome.

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May 31, 2021

Protect the Product Backlog (and the scrum team)

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…

Agile

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Protect the Product Backlog (and the scrum team)
Protect the Product Backlog (and the scrum team)
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