One of the biggest mistakes that I see new Agile teams (or teams at scale) do is moving too quickly into a different format to do a retrospective. It isn’t too surprising when...
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Category Archives: Agile Back to Basics
Product Ownership – Game of Thrones style
What if the characters from Game of Thrones happened to be Product Owners? How would their personas come to live in Agile teams? Let’s see how some of our favourite characters as Agile...
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Trudging through the misinformation: Another Agile vs Waterfall debate
There is a world of misinformation out there about Agile. Even I have probably created some misinformation once or twice (not deliberately). There is probably too much wrong to fix, but I saw...
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A User Story is just a fancy name for a SRS?
In a query that recently spammed the Agile universe by Abder-Rahman Ali was a question posed about the difference between User Stories and Software Requirements Specifications, specifically 1) Do you think that “user...
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Sprint 0: The Goal, Activities and the Term
In a recent tweet, If you must do some pre-project prep, so be it. Please don’t name it “Sprint 0″ that makes it seem valuable. It isn’t. Delving further into the tweet I...
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