Posted by: on February 14th, 2012
I think the terms acceptance criteria, acceptance tests etc have caused a lot of confusion, in some environments they are separate, in others they are blurred. I always strive to ensure that the acceptance criteria for a theme, epic or story is defined. This acceptance criteria is the outcome and agreement with stakeholders, customers and
Posted by: on February 12th, 2012
I have written this article in the hope that it will help people avoid experiencing the mess that I have seen companies get themselves into on enterprise projects. I say enterprise projects here and this refers to your large program / project corporate environment. On small projects, other environments or in a ‘heaven’ scenario where
Posted by: on February 2nd, 2012
Agile retrospectives are all about getting the team to self-reflect, provide unified feedback and from that feedback take actions to self-improve. I saw the feedback model for individuals and thought that it could easily be adapted for retrospectives and seems to offer much more than a simple what went bad what went wrong practice. Retrospective
Posted by: on November 25th, 2010
SYNOPSIS There is a lot of confusion amongst scrum practitioners on what a theme is.I have seen articles that talk about the theme for a sprint (I see a sprint theme as a goal.) I cannot say that this is incorrect as it depends on the perception of the individual. This article provides you with
Posted by: on February 21st, 2010
What is SMART? SMART is a simple technique that helps you set goals effectively, be it product, organisational, project or for sprints. This is an effective tool to include in your Scrum techniques. What does SMART stand for? Specific Measurable Agreed Realistic Timebound SPECIFIC When setting our goals we do not want them to be