How to Get Buy-in for Refactoring
A good Product Owner is driven to maximize value. Oftentimes, that drive supersedes the need...
The Top Behaviors of a Bad Agile Manager
Successful organizations hire quality managers who understand Agile and not only talk the talk, but...
How to Become a Great Agile Coach
Like any great skill, becoming a great Agile coach takes time and practice. It requires...
How Agile Leads to Increased Revenue
If you like money and like delivering valuable solutions to your users, Agility helps you...
Improving Scrum Using Kanban Work-In-Progress Limits
You limit work-in-progress (WIP) in Scrum to the work items in your sprint backlog. Doing...
Three Reports Expert Scrum Masters Use
Intro Reports are an invaluable tool to monitor the health of your system. You use...
Defects: Find Them Early, Fix Them Fast
“Most defects end up costing more than it would have cost to prevent them. Defects...
Stop Adding Tasks to User Stories
Creating tasks for each user story before implementation may seem like it is adding value...
End Meeting Insanity! Learn to Facilitate
What is the biggest time-waster in your job? If you said “unproductive meetings,” then you...
The Four Ultimate DevOps Don’t’s
Don’t put DevOps in a box Don’t ignore culture Don’t under-invest in automation Don’t bogart...
If You’re Not Using This #1 Kanban Strategy, You’re Losing Time and Money
“Start stopping and start finishing” is the ultimate way to increase efficiency. And yet, none...
Fiction, Not Fantasy: A Cautionary Tale About Testing
Many managers think that if they send everyone to a Scrum training and then assign...