Why Your Scrum Team Needs a Release Plan

Why Your Scrum Team Needs a Release Plan

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...
We are Agile. We are Not Perfect.

We are Agile. We are Not Perfect.

Every Team Practices Agile Differently People take time off. I’m an Agile Scrum Master and Coach to a new team in their third sprint. Newbies. I fretted when I realized that I had a mandatory 2-day class scheduled on the same days as my upcoming Retrospective and...
Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Agile

Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Agile

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...
Write Better Stories

Write Better Stories

The 5 Key Ingredients to Write Better Stories Every time we teach a GSD Scrum Training workshop, one of the most difficult concepts for students to grasp is how to write a story. On the surface, the concept seems quite simple: Describe the user’s functional...
3 Tips to Close More Stories

3 Tips to Close More Stories

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...