Evaluate Progress in sprints:A sprint is a short and focused period of time, usually two to four weeks, where one could work on a subset of tasks or goals from their personalbacklog. A sprint can help one break down their work into manageable chunks, and deliver value frequently and cons...
A good backlog is the heart of a high functioning Agile team of any kind, and if you neglect it you'll quickly find issues cropping up throughout the process.At the start of each Sprint the marketing team pulls work from the comprehensive marketing backlog to form the smaller Sprint back...
Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Daily Scrum. A training course description might even tell you how many different Scrum roles you need in your team, and what they are. However, we don’t do cookie cutter. We work with you to solve...
A burndown chart is aproject management chartthat shows how quickly a team is working through a customer’s user stories. This agile tool captures the description of a feature from an end-user perspective and shows the total effort against the amount of work for each iteration or agile sprin...
Feeling like the same thing over and over and over? Let me tell you the story of what I’m working on right now. About half my time right now is spent working on a project for a client where we are building two mobile apps for the – one iOS, one Android. We have a sprint ...
Do I bring doughnuts when we get through a tough story or sprint? Do I know when my teams have got through a tough story or sprint? Laugh you may, but what I’m emphasising is a leadership style that recognises the connection between acknowledging people’s effort and business success. ...
Winning a sprint (making an impossible deadline) but coming in last in the marathon (not meeting business goals) is not good for you, your team or your business.Agile Principle 9 Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility. Make It Glimmer “Don’t tell me...
Transformation is not a sprint but a marathon. It’s not enough for executives to give their buy-in at the beginning of the transformation. They shouldn’t expect business results with minimal effort. Many transformation teams struggle to get continuous executive engagement needed for sustainable ch...
Often a show and tell - is where the product is demonstrated to key stakeholders. The retrospective A private team meeting for lessons learnt during the sprint and how these can be applied top future sprints Start next sprint (from step 3). ...
Every iteration, you discover what is working and make it stick; each iteration reveals what needs to be improved and comes up with an actionable step for the next sprint to improve it. It doesn’t have to be a big change, quite the opposite. Small steps work generally much better. ...