And what to do when these questions don’t really help

Here are ten key factors that determine whether an agile transition will succeed. You don’t need all issues resolved before you begin. You just need to be aware

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

The 16th State of Agile Report details notable trends and issues in Agile adoption and practice for organizations.

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

There’s a saying in the music industry that the easiest way to ruin a song is to keep working on it. Add enough effects, extra guitar parts, or more cowbell, and you’ll turn Woody Guthrie into Guns N’ Roses. Knowing when a piece of art is “done” is subjective and often difficult to define. But...

A good leader keeps everything in order. In this fast-paced era where agile methodologies have become a more often used framework, a good Scrum Master is what is needed. But what makes a good Scrum Master?

Discover agile estimation principles & planning methods for project success. Dive into uncertainty, valuable estimates & agile delivery processes.

Scrum has not been immune to controversy, and the history of how and who invented it is a topic of frequent debate. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy describes this popular framework's confusing origin story.

A/B testing is a way to compare two versions of something to figure out which performs better. While it’s most often associated with websites and apps, the method is almost 100 years old and it’s one of the simplest forms of a randomized controlled experiment. This testing method has risen in popularity over the last couple of decades as companies have realized that the online environment is well-suited to help managers, especially marketers, answer questions like, “What is most likely to make people click? Or buy our product? Or register with our site?”. It’s now used to evaluate everything from website design to online offers to headlines to product descriptions. The test works by showing two sets of users (assigned at random when they visit the site) different versions of a product or site and then determining which influenced your success metric the most. While it’s an often-used method, there are several mistakes that managers make when doing A/B testing: reacting to early data without letting the test run its full course; looking at too many metrics instead of focusing on the ones they most care about; and not doing enough retesting to be sure they didn’t get false positive results.

When I recently asked a room full of people “What is the difference between Acceptance Criteria and Conditions of Satisfaction?”, I expected definitions

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.

Scrum teams estimate both product backlog items and sprint user stories--but in distinct units and at separate times.

From the Blog…

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.

In software development, a lot of terms are thrown around for how teams should be managed. Whether we say self-managed teams, self-directed teams, or self-organized teams, what does this mean?This can mean many things depending on the organization. First, let’s cover a basic definition from the interwebs:

I'm currently the Scrum Master of a 10 developer strong team. We've adopted Agile/Scrum methodologies for some time now and are currently on our 53rd Sprint. Our stakeholders actively like to understand the output of story points in advance of a Sprint. This is currently done on a capacity basis working on a focus factor of 60%.

Here are some common challenges Scrum Teams face when engaging with stakeholders and ways to overcome these challenges.

In the Scrum framework, there are three "core roles," which are mandatory for producing the product, are committed, and ultimately responsible for each sprint & the initiative's success. These roles are Product Owner, the Agile Team, and Scrum Master.

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marked by ready ability to move with quick easy grace; having a quick resourceful and adaptable character… See the full definition

Having a Definition of Ready means that stories must be immediately actionable. The Team must be able to determine what needs to be done and the amount of work required to complete the User Story or PBI.

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.