Burndown Charts: 7 Tips for Effective Use
Burndown charts can communicate a team's Sprint progress quickly and clearly. However, they aren't easy to create — or use — correctly.
Get Quality Feedback During the Sprint Review: Ask the Right Questions
Sprint Reviews are a crucial part of Scrum. They allow team members to inspect and adapt their work to meet customer expectations. One of the most important aspects of a successful Sprint Review is getting quality feedback from stakeholders.
Using Customer Segmentation and Term Renewal to Increase Profit
In the first post in our Recession-Proofing Your Profit series, I shared the basic structure of Term Renewal Acceleration, in which a product manager creates an offer to accelerate an annual term renewal with a limited duration renewal discount. In this post, I will expand on the basic structure of Term Renewal Acceleration to show how adding advanced customer segmentation based on product usage data can further increase profitability.
Accelerate Renewals to Prepare for Economic Headwinds
This blog series, Recession Proofing Your Profit, will share three specific strategies that product managers can employ to fulfill their responsibility of creating sustainable profits amid economic crises.
How I Used the Personal Retrospective to Become a Better Scrum Trainer
For the last four years, I’ve been taking the steps necessary to become a Certified Scrum Trainer. It wasn’t easy. And I couldn’t have done it without making the Personal Retrospective central to the process.
An Awesome Value Stream Mapping Byproduct: Alignment
Value stream mapping, when done right, can have an awesome secondary benefit: team alignment.
Customer-Centric SAFe Webinar
Customer satisfaction is supposed to be the highest priority in Agile software development. In the reality of many SAFe implementations, the customer is often forgotten.
How to Improve the Five Whys Technique
In the last decade, the Five Whys technique has become standard Agile practice. The technique can lead to unintended consequences, however, so we're proposing an alternative: Five Whats.
User Story Hierarchy in Agile
This article is intended to be a quick reference guide to align your team to a common vocabulary around User Stories and User Story Hierarchy.
Defining Value in Agile
In an Agile context, defining value isn’t necessarily about calculating return on investment or measuring profit margins. At the team level where work gets done, defining value must be understood incrementally, in terms that make the right decisions possible.