Author: Amy Neil

  • Favorite Agile Tweet of the Day

    Check out @SolutionsIQ’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/SolutionsIQ/status/380369527068164096

  • 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…

  • Recommended Agile Reading

    From time to time, I will review and/or list books that I find helpful.  I don’t have time to go into a full review while I’m on my lunch break, but right now I’m re-reading The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software (Pragmatic Programmers), by Jonathan Rasmusson.  It’s a great back-to-basics book for those…

  • How to Give a GREAT Demo!

    One of the major tenets of Agile is the Product Demo.  As we all know, agile encourages us to demo at the end of our sprints.  This is done for several reasons.  Not only does this keep us accountable to our customers, but it helps us to focus on forward thinking.  At many companies, it…

  • User Stories: Make ‘em SMALLER, please!

    User stories are the building blocks of whatever project we’re working on, are they not?  They give structure.  They give solidarity.  They stand things up.  Epics are the larger, overall stories that lay the foundation.  When building something, it is prudent to have the larger stories on the bottom and the smaller stories on the…

  • Welcome!

    Hello and welcome to my first blog post on Scrum Bubbles!  I know there are LOADS of scrum resources out there, so thanks for stopping by. Let me start by telling you why I decided to join the hoards of scrum blogs.  I love being a scrum master.  Pure and simple.  I love to keep…