Project & Team Management Sprint Demos: Fewer Crickets, More Conversations Sprint Demos are opportunites for the team to showcase their completed work, validate assumptions, and gather stakeholder feedback.
Project & Team Management Scrum Ceremonies to Add to Your Sprint: Demo Prep In part one of this series on Scrum Ceremonies to Add to Your Sprint, we discussed pre-refinement. In part two, we'll talk about demo prep.
Product Development Scrum Ceremonies to Add to Your Sprint: Pre-Refinement Product owners often don’t know the technical complexities of the work they want completed. This is where pre-refinement comes in.
Project & Team Management If You Don’t Like Scrum, You’re Probably Using it Wrong I sometimes hear from people in tech: "I hate scrum and don’t think it provides any value." That probably means they're doing scrum wrong.
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.
Extracurricular Activities Scrum Your Money, Part 2: Transparency and Ceremonies In part two of this series, I'll cover the importance of money transparency and using sprint ceremonies to inspect your progress.
Extracurricular Activities Scrum Your Money, Part 1: Values When you scrum your money, you establish a framework for achieving your money goals and addressing financial challenges head-on.
Project & Team Management How to Choose the Ideal Length for Your Team’s Sprints Whether starting a new software project or simply transitioning to agile project management, your team will need to pick a length for upcoming sprints.
Growing as Makers What the Process of Software Development Has to Teach About Answering Big Life Questions Surprisingly, the process of software development offers a helpful framing for finding the answer to life's big questions.
Project & Team Management Advice for Scrum Masters Joining New Teams Any scrum master new to a team would be eager to introduce improvements. But try to remember it’s not about you – first, focus on your team.
Project & Team Management Developing a Better Understanding of Agile Teamwork What is most special about the agile approach is how it frees a team to work how they think they should based on challenges they see on the ground.
Project & Team Management Keeping Distributed Teams Unblocked with Azure Boards’s “Remaining Work” Field The Remaining Work field in Azure Boards helped our scrum master keep our distributed development team from becoming blocked.
