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agile project management

Project & Team Management

Long-Term Agile Planning Is Possible!

Yes, you can plan more than a few weeks out on an agile project. Agile just gives you the flexibility to regularly rework the plan to meet your goals.
Project & Team Management

Three Ways to Shake Up Agile Development with Design Thinking

Breathe new life into your team's routine with design thinking activities for common Agile tasks: prioritizing work, assigning work, and retrospectives.
Project & Team Management

Bringing the Customer Along Is Worth It

Don't pass up the little opportunities to build trust and credibility with your customers. It's never wasted time to engage them throughout a project.
Project & Team Management

Adding Blockers to Your Backlog? Always Include a Specific Next Step

Do your blockers explain what needs to happen next? Or who's responsible for it? Or when it's due? If you want them to get done reliably, they'd better.
Project & Team Management

Why Agile Adoption Fails (+ 8 Ways to Find Success)

Adopting an agile approach for software development? Here is a set of concrete pitfalls you can avoid as a leader in your organization.
Project & Team Management

The User Story Pipeline: A Visual To Guide the Agile Process

On complex Agile projects, defining and refining user stories takes is a lot of work. The user story pipeline helps you visualize this process.
Project & Team Management

Scrum Misconception #3 – You Have to Know Every Detail to Size a Story

Estimating work is essential for planning for future work. But working through every nuance to provide an estimate can be too time-consuming.
Project & Team Management

Agile Misconception #2: We Don’t Need Documentation

Should documentation be done away with in Agile development? No! Good documentation can spark powerful conversation and collaboration.
Project & Team Management

Finding the Right Balance Between Planning & Building on Agile Projects

On Agile projects, having the right amount of up-front planning & documentation helps us collaborate more effectively, respond to change, and deliver better software. But what is "
Project & Team Management

When Is a Story Done? Three Criteria to Decide

Done is straightforward, clear-cut. It's absolute. So, when we talk about user stories being done, why is it so difficult to agree on a definition?
Project & Team Management

Three Ways to Improve Your Sprint Demo

It took a lot of hard work to complete this feature, and you should be proud, so don't come into the sprint demo nervous and unprepared.
Business Practices, Ruby

Monitoring Past Due AR with Xero and Slack

I've created a Ruby script that reports on past due accounts receivable in Xero, and automatically publishes that information to Slack.

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