Agile QuickTip: A Wishlist of Ready!
A Wishlist of Ready! Many Agile and Scrum teams have adopted the practice of having a “Definition of Ready” as a way to explicitly define when a Story – or…
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Agile QuickTip: Explicit Sprint Learning Goals
Explicit Sprint Learning Goals On this edition of Agile Quick Tips, we’re going to be discussing how setting explicit sprint learning goals could help improve your team overall. Agile teams…
Agile QuickTip: Achievement Focused Daily Scrum
Achievement Focused Daily Scrum If you’re feeling like your daily Scrum or Stand-up is getting less valuable, and losing some of its effectiveness, why not turn things around by changing…
Agile QuickTip: The Open Meeting Parking Lot
The Open Meeting Parking Lot Meetings getting off track? Have you thought about using the idea of an Open Meeting Parking Lot to make an entire meeting more focused? Many…
Agile QuickTip: Implicit Task Estimates Instead of Explicit Ones
Implicit Task Estimates Instead of Explicit Ones by Giora Morein You’re about to learn how changing your task estimates from explicit to implicit could make all the difference to the…
Agile QuickTip: Vegas-Style Retrospective
Vegas-Style Retrospective by Giora Morein Vegas-style retrospective might really be the difference-maker in helping your team identify and exploit those improvement opportunities that can propel them through the stratosphere. What…
Agile QuickTip: Using a Shared Daily Goal to make Your Sprint more Valuable
Using a Shared Daily Goal to make Your Sprint more Valuable The idea of a ‘Shared Daily Goal’ is really simple, and by using this tactic at the end of…
Agile QuickTip: Begin and End Your Sprint in the Middle of the Day
Begin and End Your Sprint in the Middle of the Day My latest Agile QuickTip is all about how ending and starting your sprints in the middle of the day…
Agile QuickTip: Use a Calendar to Make your Sprint Planning Meeting More Accurate
Using a calendar to drive your sprint planning meeting can make your sprint plan a lot more successful. Every sprint starts with sprint planning. Sprint planning is where team members…
Agile QuickTip: Publishing your Team’s Definition of Done
Publishing your Scrum team’s definition of done Taking the extra step of publishing your scrum team’s definition of ‘done’ could help your agile team to collaborate and focus on getting…
