Month: August 2013

  • Today’s favorite agile tweet

    Check out @ProjectsAtWork’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ProjectsAtWork/status/372025038955757569

  • Favorite Agile Tweet of the Day

    Check out @mike_bowler’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/mike_bowler/status/371049721424388096

  • Backlog Grooming

    I was going over some backlog grooming ideas with one of our Product Owners recently, so I thought I’d share these ideas with everyone.   When preparing for sprint planning sessions, please take a moment to make sure the top 20 stories in your project backlog are “shovel ready”.  What do I mean by this?  Shovel…

  • How many types of Agile Retrospectives are there, anyway?

    The other day I noticed that we were getting pretty stagnant with our sprint retrospectives.  I have been asking these questions: “What went well? What went less well? What areas improved from last sprint? What areas need improvement?”  Sometimes we get some good discussions going, but most of the time I have to prod my…