by Cynthia Kahn | Sep 7, 2016 | Agile Scrum
Want to Close More Stories on Your Scrum Team? The scrum team’s job is to decide how many story points to bring into the sprint, determine the right stories to accept into the sprint backlog, and close all stories in the sprint backlog by the end of the sprint. Most...
by Cynthia Kahn | Jun 26, 2016 | Agile Scrum
Agile Project Planning Techniques Overcome Fear of Unknown We understand there is an overarching desire in project management to know a good amount of detail before project planning takes place. Traditionally, these details are constrained by Time, Scope, and Budget....
by Cynthia Kahn | Jun 20, 2016 | Agile Scrum
Agile Begins with An Agile Mindset Since April Shepherd and I founded GSD Mindset and started blogging three months ago we have received an outpouring of support from the agile professional community. We have also received several comments that imply the GSD Method...
by Cynthia Kahn | May 22, 2016 | Agile Scrum
Preferred Two Week Scrum Sprint Schedule When teams are new to agile scrum, they find it difficult to organize their work to best meet their Story Point commitment in a two week sprint. I’m all about organizing for success, so I decided to share my personal best...
by Cynthia Kahn | May 15, 2016 | Agile Scrum
Approaches that Improved My Scrum Team Performance Many scrum masters ask us to recommend courses of action to resolve problems they encounter on their scrum teams. There are common patterns of behavior that inhibit the effectiveness of agile scrum. I’ve found the...
by Cynthia Kahn | May 1, 2016 | Agile Scrum
The Agile Burndown Chart Gauges Sprint Progress For those new to agile, a Burndown Chart is a graphic representation of sprint status. The vertical right axis shows the number of Story points brought into the sprint. Across the bottom, you see the number of days in...
