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    Creating Ideal Customer Profiles

    Analyzing past results to drive future successes may be the most important goal for today’s product leaders. Read More
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    Understanding Competitive Battle Cards

    A key output from a buyer intelligence program is the competitive battle card or “kill” sheet. Sales people love these but... Read More
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    The Many Hats of a ScrumMaster

    I have been working with a colleague to develop a new course for ScrumMasters (and other Agile change agents) and we were... Read More
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    The Perfection Game by Jim McCarthy

    I recently came across an awesome and challenging book – Software for Your Head by Jim McCarthy. There are so many... Read More
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    The 4Cs: Connection, Content, Concrete Practice & Conclusion

    Right before Agile 2011, I had the opportunity to co-train a CSM course with an awesome candidate to join the ranks of... Read More
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    Writing Good User Stories

    User stories are tool that originated from Extreme Programming and have become the de facto way Agile teams document and... Read More
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    Bill of Rights for the Scrum Roles

    One of the things I admired about Extreme Programming (XP) was the simplicity of the roles defined in the Green Book. In XP,... Read More
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    Scrum Roles Defined

    I do a lot of work with Scrum Teams and the ones that struggle the most are the ones where the Scrum roles are defined... Read More
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    Using a Sprint Burndown Chart

    A Sprint Burndown chart is a simple tool used by the Team to provide a measurement on how close they are to meeting the... Read More
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    Definition of Done in Scrum

    I was looking back at some old notes of mine from China and I came across a number of questions from the people I worked... Read More
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    What to Do if a Scrum Team Finishes a Sprint Early

    What to Do if a Scrum Team Finishes a Sprint Early I had an interesting conversation today with one of the software testers... Read More
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    What Is Agile in 30 Seconds . . .

    What Is Agile in 30 Seconds . . . If I had to summarize what I think Agile is about right now, this is how I would describe... Read More