Lifecycle of User Stories
Henrik Larsson presents in this post the user stories lifecycle from their origin in a Minimum usable feature (MUF/MMF) to their validation by the product owner at the end of a Scrum sprint.
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A Checklist for a Distributed Retrospective
In this blog post, Marc Löffler shares a checklist of items and best practices that should facilitate the a successful retrospective for a distributed team. Even if virtual retrospectives are fine, he suggests that distributed team should meet personally on a regular basis, if possible every two retrospectives.
Effective Specifications and Tests for Agile Projects
Fast turnaround in agile projects requires the specifications and testing processes to fit into to short iterations, which is a challenge for many teams when they start out with agile development.
The Big Picture of Enterprise Agility
This article describes an emerging enterprise pattern for the successful implementation of software agility at the project team, program and portfolio level. It describes the new software development and delivery process mechanics, the new teams and organizational units, and some of the roles key individuals play in the new agile paradigm. In addition, the Big Picture highlights the requirements practices of the enterprise agile model, because they uniquely carry the value stream to the customer.
Uncompleted User Stories
In this blog post, Sten Johnsen discusses the impact of moving uncompleted user stories from one Scrum sprint to another. He focuses on the unfinished user stories, its impact on the team velocity and its influence on the ability of the team to change.
A Great ScrumMaster Can Handle One Team at a Time
“An adequate ScrumMaster can handle two or three teams at a time. If you’re content to limit your role to organizing meetings, enforcing timeboxes, and responding to the impediments people explicitly report, you can get by with part time attention to this role. The team will probably still exceed the baseline, pre-Scrum expectation at your organization, and probably nothing catastrophic will happen.
Full-time Scrum
in this blog post, John Piekos explains how the ScrumMaster and Product Owner roles in Scrum are much more demanding than the Project and Product Manager roles of traditional project approaches. With frequent “potentially shippable product increments”, he believes that full-time effort is required from all members in order to be successful.