How to Pick the Right Agile Coach
Picking the right Agile Coach can make or break your transformation. Should you hire a full time Coach internally or bring in an expert consultant?
Picking the right Agile Coach can make or break your transformation. Should you hire a full time Coach internally or bring in an expert consultant?
A breakdown of the only 4 metrics agile teams need to succeed: Cycle Time, Escaped Defect Rate, Planned-to-Done Ratio and Happiness Metric.
Test anxiety is a real thing — but preparation helps. In this article you'll learn what’s on the Certified Scrum Master exam, how it's organized, and how to prepare. Relax, you got this.
A well-structured and well-communicated Sprint cadence is one of the essential elements of successful Scrum. A team with cadence is able to focus on the right things at the right time leading to better outcomes.
As part of our ongoing series on agile metrics, this article dives deep into one of the most famous — or infamous — metrics of them all, Team Velocity.
Measuring agile transformation progress — and choosing the right tool to do it — can be daunting. Here are some tips to make it easier.
Designing the optimal Agile team space got a lot harder when remote work became a requirement. This article suggests a new approach for remote and hybrid teams.
Relative Estimation is the fastest and most reliable method for Sprint planning. Using historical data in the form of Reference Stories makes it even better.
We recently published a piece describing why we think Relative Estimation is a more effective alternative to Planning Poker. In this article, Principal Consultant Joel Bancroft-Connors explains how our recommended alternative, Team Estimation, works.
Estimation is hard. Even the most experienced development teams miss the mark with traditional time-based estimates. The most popular alternative, Planning Poker®, sounds fun, but falls short in practice. In our experience, Relative Estimation is far more effective — and it can be gamified too.