by Cynthia Kahn | Nov 2, 2020 | Agile Transition
Become an Awesome Agile Manager through TOP Every time someone likes our post, I always ask for recommendations. Lately, I’ve received several suggestions for a post about the Agile Manager. Many of our readers are frustrated because many of their managers do not have...
by Cynthia Kahn | Jul 30, 2017 | Agile Scrum, Agile Transition
Who on your Scrum Team should Perform these Core Project Management Functions? You’ve convinced your bosses to let you introduce Agile Scrum into your company and you’ve picked your pilot project. You gathered your team, trained them, you’ve enlisted an enthusiastic...
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...
