Scrum Guidelines

Posted on 30, Dec 2011

While being in agile transition, teams look for information how to do agile correctly. Often the question sounds ’How to DO agile?‘ The guideline we prepared might be helpful to shorten your transfromation period and stabilize agile environment earlier. Download full paper as PDF from http://www.scrumdesk.com/Download/Documents/AgileResources/ScrumGuidelines.pdf Scrum Guidelines View more documents from ScrumDesk

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Relations of stories. Are they so necessary?

Posted on 18, Jul 2011

One customer asked us an interesting question regarding relations of stories in ScrumDesk. What ScrumDesk supports now is simple relations tracking solution. Very simple and basic functionality – possibility to track, see and print out it in documents. For the first look some basic functionality in ScrumDesk is missing. Functionality similar to Gannt chart way [...]

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How Kano model helps to agile product backlog prioritization

Posted on 28, Dec 2010

Our previous blog posts were about core product ownership approaches how to prioritize backlog according to business value. Another dimension a product owner should know is expected customer satisfaction. Satisfaction with developed feature or story. Mr. Noriaki Kano developed Kano model as valuable technique helping to recognize that. Applying this method the product owner can identify importance of stories [...]

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What to do as the first? And what to delete from the backlog?

Posted on 20, Dec 2010

Product owner  is often confronted with a large backlog. This post continues  to explain how to consider priority of stories. See principles in previous post. Measuring risk and positive value allows to calculate the order in which stories should be developed. Very nice and simple visualization can be Risk  vs. Value chart. Chart is split into [...]

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Is business value enough for scrum backlog prioritization?

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Agile coaches teach  teams to develop a  business value that is delivered at the end of the sprint. But should be a value an indicator of the priority? Yes, but not the only one. There are many other attributes we often forget to consider. We suggest to apply different approach. We would like to have a [...]

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