The go-to guide on everything Jira Sprints -- from how to create a sprint in Jira to the team rituals involved with sprints.
For my “project,” I opted for one-week sprints instead of the traditional two. For “normal life,” a weekly cadence made more sense to me since there are certain tasks I always do weekly. I have a story that I will duplicate each sprint that contains those items, and then I’ll ...
Afterall, even with the best of teams, there’s always some room for improvement. While a sprint retrospective is essentially an optimised process for teams working in an agile environment, it can be optimised for any type of team that works on a shared project. During each Sprint Retrosp...
Finally, Lourens encourages other executives to take a fresh approach to project completion. Agile, she says, is about much more than delivering work through iterations and sprints. Businesses must start thinking about minimum viable tests and products. ...
On our software project teams, we hold a meeting at the end of each sprint, where we gather as a team and look back on the sprint to discuss how it went. There are many formats for sprint retrospectives, but at its core, the goal is to determine: ...
Business representatives assume the product owner role but only check in with their team at the sprint review. Another favorite is adding more scope to an active sprint and the team wonders why they can’t meet their velocity goal. Many of these issues stem from getting the Agile roles and ...
Learn how to accurately estimate story points in Agile and use them to implement backlog items and user stories. Our guide has all the tactical info you need.
We used the Agile SLDC model with 2-week sprints and daily standups/scrums. By delegating time management, we were able to finish the project 20% ahead of time. wrong We had to develop a SaaS app for a big client. It took a year to get all the kinks worked out. I kept myself ...
Many Agile (Scrum) projects kick-off without asking these 10 tough questions and are forced to fix more misunderstandings down the track.One reviewer refers to this book as "Starter course for agile managers" and indeed the material is lightweight and simple to read. However in real-life ...
Agile teams aren't just for engineers. In larger software organizations, agile teams form in many parts of the business: marketing, HR, finance... you name it! There are two other pillars of great agile teams: continuous mentoring and shared skill sets. One of the big benefits in working...