A sprint goal is defined as the desired outcome of an iteration. The sprint goal provides a shared objective and represents the reason for undertaking the sprint. In this blog post, Roman Pichler explains what sprint goals are, why they matter, how to write and to track them.
User interface (UI) design is often a neglected aspect of Agile software development and there are not a lot of article talking about the integration of UI experts in Scrum team. In this article, Desirée Sy provides the real life lessons on how user-centered design (UCD) practices were adapted to an Agile development process.
What do you do when as a new ScrumMaster you meet resistance, opposition and modified Scrum practices when you start your first Agile project? In this article, Natalie Warnert provides ten survival tips for the new ScrumMaster.
In Agile and Scrum, we spend a lot of time talking about how to better manage software development teams using processes, methods, prescriptions and other rules of thumb. We spend very little time talking about the largest and most important ingredient of any agile team: the team and people themselves
Most of you should be familiar with Test-Driven Development (TDD), an Agile approach where you write a unit test before actually writing the code that should be verified. In this blog post, Jeffrey Davidson use the same concept and proposes a Test-Driven Retrospectives approach to ensure that this Scrum activity provides real improvements.
How can you share information about a Scrum project between the team members or assess its status? This article by Kulawat Wongsaroj proposes eight visualizations techniques to share information on a Scrum project. All these techniques try to summarize the large and complex set of data of a Agile project in different dimensions. They exist to help the ScrumMaster, the other team members and the other various stakeholders like managers to get a better understanding of the project.
Just imagine that you come to a different country and get a team of consultants with whom you need to do their first Scrum implementation project. On top of that, you are not managing the communication with the client, as you are only a sub-contractor. Not enough? You don’t speak official project language, which makes communication with the client VERY difficult. Want to know how it goes so far?
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