Scrum Agile Project Management

Jira Retrospectives Plugins

October 1, 2026 0

A retrospectives plugin for Jira will add to Jira the Scrum retrospectives features that the Jira does not provide natively. This is especially important for distributed Agile teams.

The Agile Job Seeker

September 21, 2026 0

How do you approach a job search with an Agile mind? In this article Mark Haynes discusses how to plan your quest for a new job using the Scrum framework and concepts like sprints or user stories..

Test Management Tools Plugins for Jira

July 7, 2026 1

A test management plugin for Jira will add to Jira the testing capabilities that project management tool does not provide natively. The core features of the test management Jira plugins should be to create test plans and test cases, organize them into test cycles, execute them, maintain traceability with Jira issues and provide test execution reports.

Tips on How to Find a Good Agile Coach

July 3, 2026 0

The notion of coaching is specific to Agile approaches in the software development world. There has always been consultants, but they were seen as a different role. Here are some resources about Agile coaching, starting with some quotes from the Agile Coaching book written by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley.

Open Source Planning Poker Tools

May 27, 2026 2

The first thing to say is that the term “Planning Poker®” is a registered trademark of Mountain Goat Software, the Mike Cohn company. This is why this agile planning practice could be sometimes names differently: scrum poker, agile poker, etc. This article presents a list of free and open source planning poker tools and plugins that are also directly available as online tools.