Writing Better User Stories (And Why They Are So Important)
What is a user story? A user story is a short, simple description of product features, written with the finished product in mind and from the customer’s point of view. User stories…
Tag: Agile
BC001 – Red Book Book Club
Join Chris Sims of CAVU, world-class Scrum practitioner and trainer, for in-depth discussions during the book club session on “The Red Book”. Nicknamed “The Red…
What goes in a good Definition of Done?
Do you have a Definition of Done? Or does your team say things like: “It’s done, but I just need to push it to production”,…
Scrum Master: What makes a great one?
One of the challenges facing organizations today is finding solid talent to serve in new Agile roles, such as Scrum Master. One of the biggest…
Getting Knowledge Work to Done
Mike Cohn at Mountain Goat Software takes on the idea of Getting to Done. Cohn’s insightful post is focused on scrum as a software development process…
Commitment vs. forecast in Scrum
Much has been said about the difference between commitment and forecasting. In the scrum guide, the concept of “committing” to work was replaced with “forecasting…
The Agile Roundup #1 – Employee Engagement and Self-Organization
In this week's roundup, we focus on articles that communicate the importance of employee engagement and how you can approach your team in ways that im…