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Corporate Comfort Food Can Kill Your Project
Ah comfort food. Highly caloric, often times nostalgic and easy to make but always, well, comforting. I personally like my wife’s fried chicken with mac and cheese. I can’t eat it every day or I would...
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Fallacy ‘Force Flex’ Velocity
One of the beautiful things about Agile teams, specifically team’s using a time-boxed method like Scrum in partnership with a relative estimation technique like Planning Poker®, is the notion of...
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Agile Q&A: Attributes in a Product Backlog
The Question: What are the different elements and pieces of information I should capture and track within my Product Backlog? The Answer: Prior to answering this question, let’s first baseline our...
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An Update: Types of User Stories
Since authoring Agile Q&A: Are there types of User Stories? back in November 2012 I’ve realized a flaw in the content. In that post I referenced 3 types of stories… User Stories Non-User Stories...
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What’s the Status of That Anyway?
It’s inevitable. Someone is going to ask you about the status of an item in your Product Backlog. Tracking the status of items in the backlog is a great way to keep your team organized as well as allow...
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15 Questions – High Quality Backlog Items
We’ve officially formed a habit. It’s been 82 days since the first ‘15 Questions’ post went live. This month we explore 15 questions that will help you gauge the quality of your backlog items....
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Help! My Teams Need More Engagement in Backlog Definition
Who: Jeffrey Davidson What: FREE! Webinar When: Tomorrow, Thursday, April 9, 2015 Where: WebEx – Register HERE You’ve seen some symptoms that there may be some inefficiency in your story writing...
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Sizing to the Horizon
It’s never fun to have to use the go-to consultant response “It Depends.” Sadly, it’s part of my vocabulary when working with teams and it inevitably is used when teaching teams about “Sized...
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Definition of Ready – Revisited.
Since authoring my first post on Definition of Ready (Getting a Story “Ready”) back in December 2012 (wow… that long), I’ve slightly refined my 4 questions, and have added a few other guidelines for...
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The What vs. The How
I drew this picture last summer when co-coaching with Dan Moody for a client down in South Carolina. It was one of those cool moments where I magically drew something on the white board and everyone...
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