Posts Tagged: sprint
Boring retrospectives – part 13 : Helping Hands
Working together is one of the most important success factors in an agile team. Individual work will not be enough to deliver all the user stories before the sprint is finished. Daily standups help to foster this communication, but it
Boring retrospectives – part 13 : Helping Hands
Working together is one of the most important success factors in an agile team. Individual work will not be enough to deliver all the user stories before the sprint is finished. Daily standups help to foster this communication, but it
Boring retrospectives – part 11 : 3 warm up exercises
How do you start a retrospective? Can you just ask your team what’s going wrong and what ideas they’re having to improve the current process? Of course not, you ‘ll receive a blank stare and if lucky an ironic “Euh,
Boring retrospectives – part 11 : 3 warm up exercises
How do you start a retrospective? Can you just ask your team what’s going wrong and what ideas they’re having to improve the current process? Of course not, you ‘ll receive a blank stare and if lucky an ironic “Euh,
How to prepare for a daily standup
The daily standup has become a routine in the lives of many people in software development. 78% of all agile teams hold daily standups, according to the 2011 State of Agile Development Survey from VersionOne. Each day, at a specific time, teams gather
How to prepare for a daily standup
The daily standup has become a routine in the lives of many people in software development. 78% of all agile teams hold daily standups, according to the 2011 State of Agile Development Survey from VersionOne. Each day, at a specific time, teams gather
Does the sprint velocity only includes finished user stories?
When evaluating a sprint, the sum of all user stories that are DONE, give us our sprint velocity. Now, what if one user story didn’t make it to done, but is finished for 90%? Do we add 90% of the
Does the sprint velocity only includes finished user stories?
When evaluating a sprint, the sum of all user stories that are DONE, give us our sprint velocity. Now, what if one user story didn’t make it to done, but is finished for 90%? Do we add 90% of the
Boring retrospectives – part 2
When your team is operating in short iterations, retrospectives tend to get boring after a while. If you’re working in an agile organization, most suggestions for improvement have been executed and evaluated. The obvious improvement actions have already been identified.
Boring retrospectives – part 2
When your team is operating in short iterations, retrospectives tend to get boring after a while. If you’re working in an agile organization, most suggestions for improvement have been executed and evaluated. The obvious improvement actions have already been identified.
Boring retrospectives
When you’re working with a team for a long time, it is important to keep retrospectives sharp. They are just too valuable to let them change into a drag. The team should feel energized to start a retrospective, as it
Boring retrospectives
When you’re working with a team for a long time, it is important to keep retrospectives sharp. They are just too valuable to let them change into a drag. The team should feel energized to start a retrospective, as it
Short iterations
When starting a project, one of the choices that have to be made is the iteration length. While a 4-week iteration feels very short, once in the rhythm, it is quite long. In a lot of cases, you wish to
Short iterations
When starting a project, one of the choices that have to be made is the iteration length. While a 4-week iteration feels very short, once in the rhythm, it is quite long. In a lot of cases, you wish to
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