Requirements in Scrum
Let's be honest. Most teams struggle with how to get requirements into their new "agile" process. Take Scrum for instance. Scrum says you start with what is called a Product...
Drive Fast in the Fog
Many organizations today simply embrace agility because they "think" it will make them go faster, thus beating their competition. If done under the correct values and principles of agile; it...
Is Your Team Focused with a Sprint Goal?
One of the 5 values of Scrum is Focus. Too often, I will ask Product Owners "What is the goal of this sprint"? Their response? "To get all of these...
Are You Working On the Organization? Or In It?
Many organizations strive to go through an "Agile Transformation". In fact there is a great debate on the word "transformation" in our community. Let's just really call it what it...
The Sprint's Locked?
When I am teaching / coaching teams on the use of Scrum, many of them ask about how to handle escaped defects, product support items, etc...You know, the "unplanned stuff"...
Organizational ADD
We all have most likely heard the term; Attention Deficit Disorder (or formally known as Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder). ADD or ADHD are the short phrases we use to...
Quick and Easy
I have one of the best jobs in the world. I enjoy what I do and I get to help other people succeed. The challenging part of the work that...
Metrics Drive Behavior...Right?
From the beginning of our existence, we have been surrounded by various forms of leadership. Whether the leadership was good or bad, that is a different question. We can agree...
Is Your Kitchen Clean?
I work with a lot of Scrum Teams and there are always some common things between the teams I work with and then some things that are drastically different. What...
Building Your Agile Muscle
Does your team have a definition of done (the list of valuable activities that assert quality in your product)? In the dictionary, the term done means: “Having been carried out...
Why Agile Teams Often Don't Thrive
On TUE May 19, we hosted Ron Jeffries (yes the guy who has been building software longer than you have been alive) at DFW Scrum. Ron is a frequent visitor...
Review Your Sprint Review
Imagine yourself a stakeholder in an organization that is adopting agile practices for software delivery. The teams have chosen Scrum as their agile management process. As part of this new...