Scrum teams often use user stories for backlog items. Unfortunately, one of the most important aspects of a story – its extremely short length – has been subtly transformed over time and user stories have lost their original essence and potency.
In this article, Bachan Anand explains that beyond the mechanics, the daily Scrum stand-up meeting checks how is the team progressing toward fulfillment of the sprint commitment, identifies concerns immediately and provides an opportunity to discuss corrective action.
In this blog post, Sean McHugh shares six practices to be a better product owner.
In this blog post, George Dinwiddie explains how to use the first iteration in a Scrum project to deliver some working software and not just building a backlog and setting up infrastructure for the next iterations that will deliver increments of functionality.
Martín Alaimo proposes to measure Scrum sprint progress with a continually updated ETC (estimate-to-complete) for each user story.
This is a funny but realistic time-lapse video of a scrumboard and burndown chart taken during a 9 day sprint.
This video shows a discussion on how agile techniques rebuild trust between IT and business at the 10 Years of the Agile Manifesto conference.
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