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Choosing the right iteration length is an important decision. These are important factors you should consider when selecting your team's iteration length.

I read a lot about the planning onion related to Agile environment.  Here at my office, I use the planning onion to effectively show the layers of responsibility that help us to get things don…

Learn from our scrum experts on how to create a good definition of Done and why it’s so critical in ensuring incremental improvement in product development.

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...

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

The MoSCoW method is a prioritization framework used to help key stakeholders understand the significance of initiatives in a release.

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

Fibonacci agile estimation quantifies the effort needed to complete a development task. Learn how to employ this method in your agile process.

Free scrum guide for agile scrum team. Learn about how agile estimation can be performed. More free scrum resources are available.

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

From its origins to its significance, almost every popular notion about the famous Fibonacci sequence is wrong.

The planning fallacy is a phenomenon in which predictions about how much time will be needed to complete a future task display an optimism bias and underestimate the time needed. This phenomenon sometimes occurs regardless of the individual's knowledge that past tasks of a similar nature have taken longer to complete than generally planned. The bias affects predictions only about one's own tasks. On the other hand, when outside observers predict task completion times, they tend to exhibit a pessimistic bias, overestimating the time needed. The planning fallacy involves estimates of task completion times more optimistic than those encountered in similar projects in the past.

Precision and accuracy in chronostratigraphy is very important when considering the age of moraines and other features in glacial geology!

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.

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

Good acceptance criteria will help get your agile development project from “It Works as Coded” to “It Works as Intended.”

Disclaimer: The content in this article is a mix from the references linked below and my personal experience. It is not meant to be an…

Roman Pichler says successful product owners share the characteristics discussed in this post. Are you a successful product owner? Do you have these attributes?

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?

Do you know what psychological safety is not? First, let's get on the same page about what it is: In their book, "Personal and Organizational Change Through…

Discover 6 qualities of effective Scrum Masters, plus a bonus trait to help teams reach optimal performance.

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:

In this Executive Update, we discuss why IT professionals must become more T-shaped, what it means to be more T-shaped, and how mid-career technology professionals need to continue to grow in their career in order to thrive in this rapidly changing world. We will also discuss how an executive understanding of this concept can be incorporated into business today to drive greater flexibility and value in the future.

What exactly is a self-organizing team? How do you create one, and why is having one is important to creating an Agile environment? Let's take a look.

In July 2016, the Scrum Values were added to The Scrum Guide.  These values include Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect, and Openness. This poster provides a view of the Scrum Values with some descriptions to help you better understand them.

Empiricism means working in a fact-based, experience-based, and evidence-based manner. Scrum implements an empirical process where progress is based on observations of reality, not fictitious plans. Scrum also places great emphasis on mind-set and cultural shift to achieve business and organizational Agility. The three pillars of empiricism are as follows:

The following is a short extract from our recent book, Scrum: Novice to Ninja, available for free to SitePoint Premium members.

Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. The Scrum Guide contains the official definition of Scrum as authored by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.

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.

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