Tracking and Monitoring

As the Trump era wanes, there is a sense of optimism about what the accord could achieve, five years in—but only if countries meet their targets.

Acceptance Criteria is commonly understood, but "Done" is unique to scrum. People get confused between these two things but they’re distinctly different.

Acceptance Criteria is commonly understood, but "Done" is unique to scrum. People get confused between these two things but they’re distinctly different.

If a team finishes most of a sprint backlog item, can they count that work toward velocity? Find out what happens when they do.

Here are a few tips on how to handle the work left at the end of an agile sprint.

An important consideration in commitment-driven planning is how full to fill the sprint. First, unde ...

What do you do as an agile consultant when the prospect asks you to estimate a backlog for RFP, but you don’t feel like you have enough info?

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I work remotely. And my creation -- the Rotate-Mo-Tron 4000 -- helps me actively participate in meetings. Instructions included.

I’ve worked on a few projects where Scrum teams benefitted from having multiple definitions of done. Let’s look at those examples.

Here are a couple of suggestions for both Scrum Masters and product owners. Each is a resolution I've made in the past during my time in each role.

Not every project benefits from estimation, but it's a pretty rare project where no estimation at all needs to be done.

The Scrum team has improved, progress has slowed. How to analyze and identify the bottlenecks between Product Development and Deployment.

Resisting the Urge to Direct Underperforming Teams

Timeboxing is allotting a fixed, maximum unit of time for an activity. All five events in Scrum use Timeboxing.

Of course it’s going to happen. No matter how good an agile team is, eventually they’ll have a tough sprint and something bad will happen.