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 next. Even more, many customers ask you about new functionality or defect fixes. In our [...]
While being in agile transition, teams look for information on how to do agile correctly. Often the question sounds 'How to DO agile?' We prepared Scrum Guideline that we hope might be helpful to shorten your Agile transformation and stabilize the agile environment sooner. The paper describes all Scrum ceremonies with a focus on [...]
Do you need to learn more about Agile and Scrum fundamentals? We suggest starting with the following books. For beginners Slovak translation If you are agile already Presentations about Scrum
This presentation has been presented during StartUp Camp in Kosice, east of Slovakia. View more presentations from ScrumDesk
When defining a story, one can fill out an ‘effort’ and a ‘duration’. What is the difference between them? What is the story point? Let's start with the story point. Scrum is „a little bit“ different than other classic project management techniques. When you want to develop some feature, you have to know the „size“ [...]
As part of our coaching activities we did presentation in Slovakia about agile as the next step in evolution of software industry.
We would like to announce a new regular ScrumDesk Basics webinar in which you will learn how to start with ScrumDesk quickly. Webinar will covers management of scrum project and teams using ScrumDesk. You will learn how to plan releases and sprints, how ScrumDesk is helpfull in sprint execution and in retrospective. Basic reports [...]
After four years of scrum project management solutions development, working in an agile environment, and coaching agile in organizations, we would like to announce our new approach to help our community to learn more about Agile. Doing support of our solutions we have heard a lot of questions. Despite people asking questions related to [...]
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 [...]
The customer asked us an interesting question regarding the relations of stories in ScrumDesk. What ScrumDesk supports now is simple relations tracking solution, the possibility to track, see and print out it in documents. For the first look, some basic functionality in ScrumDesk is missing. The functionality similar to Gantt chart way of relations [...]
Pig & chicken Metaphor that helps to distinguish people actively involved in development of the product and people who should not interrupt the team in an iteration. Product Owner Father of the product. Responsible for product success. Provides a vision to the team. Communication channel between the team, stakeholders and customers. Responsible for: product [...]
ScrumDesk analyzes agile practices applied by teams and helps ScrumMasters to identify gaps quickly. These tips and findings of BurnDown charts are based on our 14+ years of agile coaching. Check additional metrics that ScrumDesk helps to track. Burn Down Chart is a primary scrum metric used to track the implementation progress of the [...]
The transition of teams to agile is always challenging. People have expectations, habits, and beliefs about Agile. We worked with teams they were saying We are agile already. Because we are time boxed. Well, yes, you are right. Partially. The agile means a much wider range of practices. An agile coach can explain principles [...]
An agile retrospective is one of the most important ceremony in Scrum. There are lot of ways how to do it. We would like to provide to ScrumMasters and teams an overview how to do retrospective. And we are starting with Agile Retrospective: Set stage
Couple of weeks ago we were asked by organizers of Agile Meetups at Budapest to provide Agile Games talk. It was great opportunity to bring not just a presentation, but to really show how and why agile is good way of work. Agile transition is very often the current case in companies. Companies look for [...]
As you are aware, Scrum is based on values very nice summarized by Mike Vizdos's o this cartoon. All of them, however, requires to define working agreement supporting creation of these values. An adaptation is in Scrum done at different levels, mostly through collaboration. Teams have to have common understanding, common vocabulary. We use [...]
Product owner is a key role in Scrum framework. Companies used to start with intorudction of agile in development team, but the biggest mistake is missing preparation of Product owners before scrum/agile adaptation. Following slides pprovides fundamental information about Scrum and agile to Product owner role. Product Owner Briefly View more presentations from Dusan [...]
Product management is about searching for the most important requirement that needs to be delivered as the next. There are different prioritization practices. One such dimension that product owner should be aware of 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 applying a different approach. We would like to have [...]
Are you looking for some ideas what Scrum is about? Check our training lesson we provided for more than 1.000 people in different IT companies of multiple business areas as telco, insurance, financial, startups, ISV, project, and product houses. Our training is about real-life experience, not just a presentation. [...]
Scrum is a lightweight process framework. As it is just a framework, you can find the same implementation in the world rarely. Even at the company level scrum implementation will be different project by project. To validate our coaching effort we use Scrum Checklist (originally written by Henrik Kniberg). Henrik's checklist is a paper-based [...]
Successful companies are looking for the ways how to improve processes all the time. Sources of improvement, in companies driven by traditional management, are mostly selected people from senior management and/or process engineers. The problem is, as we in agile community see, that source of improvements are not the people directly doing the job in [...]
Sprint review (or demo, demonstration) is fundamental Scrum ceremony providing a visibility of results to a product owner, stakeholders or anyone invited. For an agile team, a review is a key event as commitment they agreed on must be demonstrated as a real functionality. We spent a couple of few days on-site with teams we coach. The [...]
How to do Agile estimation with story points? Agile estimation is based on simple principles: apply relative comparison as people are better in relative estimation not absolute, compare items with estimation references included in the estimation catalogue, use a simple scale based on the modified Fibonacci scale numbers of which are known as the [...]
