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Unclear User Stories: Lost in Distraction
The immediate purpose of software development is precisely that: SOFTWARE. Our ultimate goal is delivering software. The prize (whatever it could be) will depend on software delivery success. You will...
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The task board shows WHAT and HOW we are doing during a sprint
Finally I am back!! I apologize for my temporal aloofness!! I was reading interesting postings at ScrumDevelopment group about Taskboard and how the progress is visualized so I want to share some ideas...
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Attaching Business Value to User Stories
I came across this wonderful short post entitled “User Stories: Value and Size”. The most interesting paragraph for me is this one: Maximizing work not done is the art of our trade. The business value...
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Six Practices to deal with assumptions, risks and priorities
In the making of a new product, you have some very few proven assumptions (realities) and a lot of not proven ones. That’s good because those assumptions gives an interpretation of reality, a set of...
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Scrum Release Planning
First of all, I don’t believe there’s something like Scrum Release Planning. Let me get this straight: Scrum is the alternative for traditional Project Management, it is not the substitution of Product...
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Predictive Planning vs Adaptive Planning
While doing my efforts of promoting agile practices down here in Costa Rica, it is normal to meet skeptic people that simply don’t want to swallow the agile argument against a Big Design Up Front,...
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