Development Practices Human Habits for Leading Agentic Development Projects If you're leading an agentic development project and feel like it's taking some time to get your bearings, you aren't alone.
Development Practices The Value of In-Person Backlog Management Tools Most junior devs have never done software design without virtual backlog management. Let's talk about in-person backlog management tools.
Development Practices Release Notes Are Only Useful If People Actually Read Them: The Digest Fix Transform your release notes strategy with a streamlined digest format that increases clarity and reduces user confusion.
Project & Team Management Is the Backlog Getting Too Big? Here’s What to Cut! Backlog getting out of control? Try these tips for cleaning up the product backlog so product teams can move quickly and efficiently.
Project & Team Management Need a Knowledge Transfer Plan? Start by Defining the Backlog Ending a multi-year project means the team has a lot of expertise to share. Here's how we built a knowledge transfer backlog.
Project & Team Management How to Keep Your Jira Project From Becoming a Dumpster Fire Jira's breadth of customizations and features can also be a downside. Let's take a look at a few common pitfalls in a typical Jira project.
Project & Team Management 3 Tips for Developers Writing Backlog Items It's one thing to execute backlog items and another to be the author of the backlog. Here are a few tips to write better backlog stories.
Extracurricular Activities Scrum Your Money, Part 3: Backlog Answer a few important questions. From there, create a backlog to map out and prioritize the steps to get to your money goal.
Project & Team Management Bulleted List: Use This Lo-fi Tool for Backlog Planning Avoiding backlog management software in the early stages of a project has proved valuable. Here's the low-fi tool I use for backlog planning.
Personal Optimization Embracing Sprint-Based Backlogs to Prepare our Home for Sale by October My wife and I borrowed from the world of programming and use sprint-based backlog management in preparation for an upcoming home sale.
Development Practices Useful Tools for Facilitating Planning Poker Estimation Planning Poker provides an engaging way for the team to discuss implementation approaches and build consensus around the effort involved.
Managing Your Team Why Developers and Managers Should Co-Own the Backlog In the most successful projects, the backlog is co-owned by developers and managers. Learn why this approach to backlog management works.