Writing good user stories can be hard, however these ten tips will help you create powerful stories that direct product delivery.

Don’t just provide customer support – meet expectations with agile customer service. With the ability to continuously improve processes, retail gets a

Learn the unique terminology used in Agile, Scrum and Kanban. This glossary is meant to represent an overview of Scrum, Agile, Kanban, XP and some other related terms.

Some agile teams estimate using a fixed set of values based on the Fibonacci sequence. Learn the science behind this approach and why it works so well.

Learn how to apply agile concepts to your projects. This fully updated book covers changes to agile approaches and new information related to the methods of managing an agile project.

Blog post describing how traditional project manager responsibilities map onto the Scrum roles of product owner, ScrumMaster, and development team

Explore the essentials of building an agile roadmap in this guide for product managers. Map out your product strategy in a flexible and adaptive manner.

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Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable. —Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things Design Thinking It goes beyond the traditional focus on the features and functions of a proposed product. Instead, it emphasizes understanding the problem to beRead more

In Scrum, the Prioritized Product Backlog is a single requirements document that defines the project scope by providing a prioritized list of features of t...

Doing Agile is about practices. Being Agile is about the Mindset. Most of the value comes from mindset or culture. Focus on that for results.

When it comes to Product Ownership, there are a couple of things that are essential to get the job done right.

If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source reference you’ve been searching for.

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Great things don’t happen in a vacuum. But creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can be a daunting challenge.

Business justification is first assessed prior to a project being initiated and is continuously verified throughout the project lifecycle. This is a very i...

Estimate inflation is when the estimate assigned to a product backlog item (usually a user story) increases over time. Triangulating prevents this.

XP teams have to manage stories and tasks. The INVEST and SMART acronyms can remind teams of the good characteristics of each.

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Within systems engineering, quality attributes are realized non-functional requirements used to evaluate the performance of a system. These are sometimes named architecture characteristics, or "ilities" after the suffix many of the words share. They are usually architecturally significant requirements that require architects' attention.[1]

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. These are our values and principles.

In the past, the Scrum Guide consistently used the word "priority" for the Product Backlog or noted that the Product Backlog was “prioritized.” While the Product Backlog must be ordered, ordering by priority is only one many techniques — and rarely the best one at that.

Poker planning is an agile estimating and planning exercise that uses Planning Poker cards for consensus-based estimating in Scrum.

Learn how to align product stakeholders with a backlog prioritization workshop

Product Discovery is the iterative process of reducing uncertainty around the problem space as a product team. Here's how to stay on course.

What is a Product Vision statement? Learn more about Product Vision statements and other product management terminology in our resources library.

Prioritization is a challenge for any product manager. How do you decide what to work on first? Here is a simple scoring system to help prioritize well.

The Scrum Guide provided in HTML format on the web.

Scrum in easy steps provides an introduction to Scrum, then steps through how a team gets going on a project and how they sustain performance and continually improve.

A value proposition is a promise of value to be delivered. It’s the primary reason a prospect should buy your product.