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Are You Ready for “Agile”? 3 Questions to Help You Decide Today!
So your team would like to try this new technique called “Agile.” You have heard about this for the past…
So You Want to be a Virtual Scrum Master – 3 Tips for Success
The Scrum Master role is a challenging one, primarily because you have no formal authority and often are expected to…
What Should We Do With Our Business Analyst If We Are Adopting “Agile”?
If you read the Scrum Guide, you may realize a few things that you may have expected to be there.…
What Should We Do With Our Project Manager if We Are Adopting “Agile”?
If you read the Scrum Guide, you may realize a few things that you may have expected to be there.…
Estimating the Sizes of Epics
Many, and perhaps most, agile teams use Planning Poker to estimate the sizes of their user stories. Agile projects can…
Agile Methodologies: How They Fit Into Data Science Processes
Agile methodologies are a set of frameworks that help manage projects in an iterative fashion. These methods focus on…
Scrum of Scrums: 3 Common Mistakes to Avoid
The Scrum of Scrums is one of the most important forums for larger project teams to coordinate efforts and ensure…
How Can You Tell if Your Chief Scrum Master isn’t Performing?
If you have a Chief Scrum Master on your project, you most likely have several Agile teams working to deliver…
3 Reasons Your Sprint Retrospective is Wasting Your Time (And 3 Ideas to Fix Them!)
Would you be surprised to find out that 80% of the 1,000+ Agile practitioners surveyed in the 13th Annual State…
What does a high-performing Scrum team look like, and what you should do if you find one?
You have a great scrum team that works well together. Your team understands how to plan, estimate, and deliver working…
3 Reasons the Daily Scrum is Wasting Your Team’s Time
Have you ever attended a Daily Scrum and thought to yourself “Why do we need to have a status meeting…
TDD vs. BDD vs. ATDD
Software development can be overwhelming. There are tons of languages, frameworks, and tools to know about. Plus, there are processes…