Agile QuickTip: Yellow and Red Cards!
Here’s how introducing yellow and red meeting cards can help you focus your teams meetings, and stop them getting taken off track. We’ve all been there when a meeting loses…
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Agile Quicktip: Use Defect Thresholds to Help Product Quality
Use Defect Thresholds to Help Product Quality Most scrum teams have backlogs that contain more than just user stories and new product features. Oftentimes, they contain bugs and defects that…
Agile QuickTip: Using Multiple Choice Estimates
Agile QuickTip: Using Multiple Choice Estimates If you ever find that estimating tasks during sprint planning is painful and argumentative then multiple choice estimates might really help with your team’s…
Agile QuickTip: Don’t Manage Cross-Team Dependencies – Eliminate Them
Don’t manage cross-team dependencies – eliminate them. One of the biggest challenges that a scrum team has to contend with when working in a multi-team, or scaled enterprise environment is…
Agile QuickTip: User Stories and Product Ideas Should be Born on Index Cards
How Do You Capture Your User Stories and Product Ideas? Try Index Cards Here’s an out of the box idea that at first glance might seem counter-intuitive. I believe that…
Agile QuickTip: Safety Checks to Kick Off Your Meetings
Safety Checks to Kick Off Your Meetings We often assume that participants in teams feel comfortable being open, transparent and forthcoming in a way that will make meetings and interactions…
Agile QuickTip: Your Process Management Tool is not a Facilitation Tool
Process management tools are a common way to for a team to manage its work, it’s backlog, and its plans. But these are repositories of information, they are not likely…
Agile QuickTip: Get rid of the ‘Survey 7’ Level-Up to Get Feedback
Get rid of the ‘Survey 7’ to Level-Up the Way You Get Feedback Surveys can be a really effective tool when collecting feedback or gaining insights from different stakeholders. Their…
Agile QuickTip: Add Expiration Dates to Your Backlog Items
Add Expiration Dates to Your Backlog Items If you have a backlog that’s getting out of control, consider using expiration dates to help control the list and streamline your team’s…
Agile QuickTip: Use Working Agreements for your Daily Scrum
Use Working Agreements for your Daily Scrum Have you ever considered that working agreements for your daily scrum might make them a lot more valuable, and help separate the daily…
