Story Splitting Poster Now Available in Portuguese
Working in small increments of value—good user stories—is the key habit that makes the rest of Agile Software Development work. But people everywhere struggle to…
Working in small increments of value—good user stories—is the key habit that makes the rest of Agile Software Development work. But people everywhere struggle to…
A key part of the ScrumMaster’s or Product Owner’s job is making information visible.* Whether that’s a product backlog, taskboard, cumulative flow diagram, or a…
Last week, I tweeted, Working in thin vertical slices is the keystone habit for agile software development. It enables so many other good practices. —…
Note: This post is adapted from some posts that I originally created on Adobe’s blog while I was an employee there. I recently finished reading former…
A few updates on 80/20 Product Ownership, my online course that teaches you how to slice your work at every level of detail to get…
Being Product Owner is hard. Actually, that’s not quite true. Anybody can make a list of things to build, call it a backlog, and bring…
Is the bug to the left a large bug or a small bug? It looks HUGE to me! Well, in reality it is probably between…
What’s wrong with the user story on the card? It seems to have everything we need: a) short title, b) a size (in this case…
Update, October 2020: Richard’s latest story splitting resources are available at Humanizing Work. Good user stories follow Bill Wake’s INVEST model. They’re Independent, Negotiable, Valuable,…
In Scrum one of the named roles is that of Product Owner. Some people have taken to referring to this position as the “single wringable…
Time for a short blog entry (I tend to be way too verbose!). I often see teams trying to make sure they have all of…
Yesterday’s blog post dealt with how to manage scope for an agile project. Today I have to admit it was a bit of a setup. …
The primary way I see teams release products faster is by reducing the scope of each product. However, this can’t be done in an arbitrary…
As a <user> I want <function> so that<value>. Above is a very simple user story template. How can something so simple be so hard to…
As an agile trainer and coach I often see new teams struggle with a simple question: “How much to do on a user story?” A lot…
Over the past 18 months I’ve encountered a number of teams where it is standard practice to have a code freeze late in the iteration. …
I was just working on some Powerpoint slides for our Agile Product Management Boot Camp coming up on March 9 and 10 and I realized I should…
Tired of not knowing exactly what to create or test? Get in the habit of asking the magic question “How will I know I’ve done…
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