Serie of free webinars: Agile on their own for Russian speaking customers

Posted on 10, Apr 2012

We see a lot of people in Europe eager to know more about Agile. We see people who would like to know what does it mean to be agile, how to start with it and how to evolve into agile company. ScrumDesk company actively supports agile transition in Central and Eastern Europe region therefore we actively [...]

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Grow your tree of requirements

Posted on 21, Feb 2012

You know that probably. Requirements are coming, coming and coming.  There is no time to stop and think about them. There is no time to organize them. There is no time to analyze your backlog so you know which requirements should be developed as next. Even more, many customers ask you of new functionality or defect fixes. In our [...]

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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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Integrated Agile Coach

Posted on 5, Dec 2011

Coaching of teams has been always great source of ideas for us. Many features in ScrumDesk have been implemented because of daily touch with real-life teams. You can benefit from that value built-in into our solutions what differentiate us from other project management tools. In coaching sessions we observed typical patterns that appear in every [...]

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Recording of ‘The Scaled Agile Framework’ webinar

Posted on 24, Nov 2011

The Scaled Agile Framework: Applying Lean-Agile to the Enterprise (presented at Agile Knowledge Hub webinar series) View more presentations from Drew Jemilo

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Effort vs. Time

Posted on 16, Nov 2011

When defining a story, one can fill out an ‘effort’ and a ‘duration’. What is the difference between them? Effort = size = Story points Let starts with the story point.  Scrum is „little bit“ different  than other classic project management techniques. When you want to develop some feature, you have to know the „size“ at [...]

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Agile adaption gaps identification

Posted on 17, Aug 2011

Doing agile are many obstacles identified. It is not easy to check what does well implemented agile means. A scale of changes that agile transition has brought is often big and related to more areas – to product,  project, leadership, team, tools, development practices and organization as well. The question asked by teams is “How [...]

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Scrum Glossary – Scrum Roles

Posted on 30, Jun 2011

Pig & chicken Metaphor that helps to distinguish people actively involved in development of the product and people who should not interrupt the team iteration. Product Owner Father of the product. Responsible for product success. Providing vision to team. Communication channel between the team, stakeholders and customers. Responsible for: product requirements, prioritization, stakeholders management driving [...]

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Is this your burn down chart?

Posted on 21, Jun 2011

Burn Down chart is a primary scrum metric used to track  implementation progress of agile project. Would you like to learn more about estimation in agile? Join free webinar on March 13, 2012! The burn down chart is simple to explain: X axis for days of the sprint Y axis for effort (story points or [...]

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Index Card in ScrumDesk

Posted on 16, May 2011

Scrum as project management is using concept of index cards introduced in Extreme Programming (XP). Cards are supposed to establish conversation and clarification of requirements.  Card in ScrumDesk displays more details than paper index card while still provides visibility. ScrumDesk index card’s advantages comparing to other project management tools: resizable many colors only necessary information [...]

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