by Cynthia Kahn | Jul 16, 2017 | Agile Scrum
Scrum Release Plan Sets Expectations with Management When teams transition to Agile Scrum, they may decide the only required planning is Sprint Planning. These teams feel that because they are Agile, they don’t have to plan beyond the next Sprint boundary. Most of us...
by Cynthia Kahn | Jun 25, 2017 | Agile Scrum
Scrum of Scrums Facilitates Coordination across Teams Agile Scrum teams are generally organized around projects or core capabilities, where teams support a set of products that serve a common business purpose. When Scrum teams are organized around core capabilities,...
by Cynthia Kahn | May 14, 2017 | Agile Transition
Why Do Traditional Project Managers Hate Agile? I recently hired into a project management group of mostly traditional lifecycle project managers. The group has a directive to transition the team to become agile. That’s why I’m here. I’m also here to apply agile to...
by Cynthia Kahn | Apr 30, 2017 | Agile Scrum
Better Understand the Purpose of Story and Acceptance Criteria Some who practice scrum believe that acceptance criteria are optional. Others only write a one sentence summary and don’t even bother writing story requirements. These practices could be a recipe for...
by Cynthia Kahn | Apr 23, 2017 | Agile Scrum
Try Applying these 3 Techniques to Increase Sprint Velocity In agile scrum, we only count closed stories when we calculate velocity. Stories have only 2 statuses at the end of the sprint: 0% or 100% complete. No partial credit for incomplete stories. Many teams refuse...
