Your User Stories Are Too Big
Product owners often struggle to translate their big ideas into small user stories that the team can deliver in a sprint. When a user story is too big, it is harder to understand, estimate, and implement successfully.
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Agile and Beyond, Detroit, USA, May 14-15 2024
Agile and Beyond is a conference focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management that takes place in Detroit, Michigan. It aims at taking together software developers, designers, product owners and executives for workshops and presentations focused on Agile and Lean processes like Scrum.
Growing Agile: A Coach’s Guide to Training Scrum
The title of the book “A Coach’s Guide to Training Scrum” is a form of understatement. If it actually provides some guidance about training people to Scrum, this book contains actually a complete step-by-step course to teach Scrum that an Agile coach could use “as is”.
MVP Testing: How to Validate Your Product Idea Quickly and Effectively
MVP or minimum viable product is a test of a hypothesis about the value of a product to the user. MVP allows you to quickly and cost-effectively test an idea to see if the market needs such a product.
Leadership Lessons from the Agile Manifesto
Whether you’re a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or Project Manager for an engineering team, you probably were not handed an instruction manual when you were given your first team to lead. This talk will show you how to apply the principles in the Agile Manifesto to become a better leader.
The Product Confidence Trap for Agile Teams
This presentation to provides a framework with which Agile teams can assess their product context, grow confidence in the insight they have developed, and decide on their next best option to deliver customer value. This is the pattern to follow to help break out of the ‘Product Confidence Trap’.
Book Review: Leading Lean Software Development
What fascinates me the most in the Lean software development approach is the quality of the people that support it. Mary and Tom Poppendieck are not an exception to this rule. Their book “Leading Lean Software Development” achieves the seemingly contradictory goals of being very insightful but still easy and captivating to read.