Prioritizing User Stories
A survey says that 64% of the functionalities included in software products are never or almost never used! In this blog post, Emiliano Soldi shares some ideas on how to avoid this and prioritize user stories.
August 2011
First Scrum Sprint Without Story Point Completed
In this blog post, Mike Caspar gives a detailed answer to the question: What if your first scrum sprint ends up with zero story points completed?
Earned Value Management for Mere Mortals
There is a strong human predisposition to assume, with the consumption of budget and the passing of time, that actual project progress is proceeding at the same pace. Sadly, facts recorded at project completion have repeatedly failed to demonstrate this correlation. Earned Value Management (EVM) is a tool that should help to solve this problem.
Agile Team Performance
This video explores the creation of a performance system that not only adheres to Agile principles, but actively promotes maturity in applying them to the delivery of measurable business and user value.
Scrum Community
The Scrum Community was formed after the Scrum Gathering Nov 2006 in Minneapolis and aim at improving the Scrum practices. The Scrum Community provides a lot of different resources in its wiki, like this interesting catalog of Scrum smells.