
Our list of the top ten tools to help web developers manage their agile workflows. Comparing the benefits, shortcomings and prices of what's in market.
Our list of the top ten tools to help web developers manage their agile workflows. Comparing the benefits, shortcomings and prices of what's in market.
Amanda Stockwell explains Design Thinking, Lean UX, and Agile, and how to implement elements of each for your team. Each approach is meant to solve a particular problem, and elements of each may be useful, so you’ll have to find what works for your team.
Zan Kavtaskin simulates Waterfall, Kanban, and Scrum project management methodologies, and looks at the impact of 'slack'.
velocity is how a scrum team measures the amount of work they can complete in a typical sprint. By tracking the number of story points the team can
Declaring a story to be done is a means of verifying that all of its critical aspects have been completed based on the way each team works.
One of the most basic artifacts of scrum for web and mobile work is the story that describes a feature to be worked on.
If the daily standup is one of the most iconic rituals of scrum, the sprint retrospective may be the most representative of the agile philosophy.
A scrum team doesn't work in a vacuum. There's usually an organization that exists around scrum, and that supports the efforts of the scrum team
At the end of the sprint, everything that was worked on for the current sprint is demonstrated for the team, the product owner, and observers.
In this article, we will talk about Daily Standup, the objective, and the benefits from using it.
In this article, you will learn what is Sprint Planning. Sprint planning is hosted by the scrum master, but the person responsible for most of the content that goes into a sprint planning is the product owner.
In this article, you will learn about Scrum Rituals. Each ritual is a face-to-face gathering in real time, which takes people away from the work they’re doing, and offers them the opportunity to have targeted communication with each other about the context of that work.
In this article, we will talk about Product Owner. A product owner usually belongs to a department such as Product or Customer Support, and spends time working with customers.
In this chapter, we’ll go over the critical roles of scrum master, product owner, and team member.
Scrum is one of several techniques for managing product development organizations, lumped under the broad category of agile software development.
You've heard of the Kanban methodology, but why should you use it over more popular software development approaches like SCRUM? Sergey Laptick explains.
Sometimes unexpected bugs threaten to get in the way of your current sprint. Agile expert M. David Green suggests four strategies for dealing with them.
Tim Evko draws on an infographic from JIRA creator Atlassian to explain what sets agile, release-ready teams apart.
M. David Green explores the confusion that can arise in agile methodology when story points and velocity are not used for their intended purpose.
It's common for software teams to pay lip service to an agile process while undermining agile in practice. I call these behaviors "process smells."
If you're new to scrum, the idea of using agile points to estimate seems confusing and arbitrary. Why not just use hours? In fact, points are more accurate.
Agile sprints share some features in common with a waterfall development cycle, but reducing sprints to mini waterfalls is destructive for an agile team.
Teams that are new to agile estimation make several common mistakes that can cripple their effectiveness in the long term.
It's common for new teams to struggle with estimation. These three estimation techniques for agile teams can help ease the transition.
In many companies, managers also serve as scrum masters. But a manager's duties fundamentally conflict with those of a scrum master.
Following a previous project management article, this article looks more closely at Scrum, hopefully enticing you to start using it to manage your projects.