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12 Easy steps for generating Index Cards from your Sprint Backlog
So you’ve captured your sprint backlog in Excel and want to print out Index cards for use on your task board. (I know many will tell you not to use Excel in the first place – I won’t). Your in luck its...
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Tools, Tools, Tools
As software developers we have this innate belief that another tool will solve all our problems. To that end many agile practitioners search for a tool to track their projects for them. However in...
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Stable Teams Really Do Matter
For years now Rally has been performing a large ongoing experiment on the Agile world. As a side effect of providing one of the better known tools they’ve managed to see a lot of data accumulate...
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Welcome to the High-Performance Teams Game
Your team is working on the World’s Smallest Online Bookstore, a site that provides the best results (just a few) for every search, not every result on earth. We’re a vulture capital funded company,...
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Forecasting, Metrics and the Lies that a Single Number Tell Us
We’ve previously seen that our mental models often make false assumptions due to cognitive bias. Giving a Single number in a report has a similar problem. The classic Agile number is ‘Velocity’: the...
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We’ve seen the risks of assuming that everything is normal distribution, and also the problem with reporting a single number. What else do we need to be aware of? What can we usefully measure? Risks in...
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Definition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria
Definition of “Done” The ScrumGuide says that: “When a Product Backlog item or an Increment is described as ‘Done’, everyone must understand what ‘Done’ means.” I can promise you, that sentence and the...
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