Category: Richard Lawrence

  • 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…

  • 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…