Posts filed under: agile
Splitting User Stories and Hamburgers
On paper writing a good user story sounds easy. “As a … I want.. So that I can”. While that may convey the basics it does not always actually tell the story. Roman Pichler lays out 10 Tips For Writing...
Better User Stories Mini Course Free for Two Weeks
Mike Cohn over at Succeeding with Agile has a mini course on writing better user stories that he is making available for 2 weeks. This 20 minute training looks at some of the common mistakes people make at the early stage of...
Telling a Compelling Story for Telehealth
In this short marketing video American Well outlines a compelling story for their Telehealth product by spotlighting many of those things that people commonly experience and telling a story of how it can be better. I find the video is...
To handle uncertainty and risk.. use Spikes
I had this tagged for a blog post for quite a while now and since we had a similar situation come up in sprint planning for the ED tool yesterday this is a great time to post on it. Basically,...
Wet Monkeys and a New Year
Soon many of us will be singing Robert Burns’ poem “Auld Land Syne”, and depending on the amount of alcohol consumed it may or may not sound similar to its Scottish origins. As this final post of 2016, a new...
Using medium-term goals to drive Now vs Not-Now prioritization
Mike Cohn posted an article a few years ago on Now vs Not-Now Prioritization Along with Medium-Term Goals. The article is a good read. In the article he states. At the start of each quarter, a product owner should put...
Code Quality – A Modernist Visualization
Recently Danny sent me a copy of Clean Code – A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship in pdf form (Or you can get your very own physical copy ). It is a lengthy read and I have not finished...
Project Pre-Kickoff Road-mapping and Scoping
In many cases we are asked to give a WAG for a project very early in the process. This typically includes the assumptions we made, and any known risks. As the project progresses it is usually necessary to spend some...
Lessons Learned: Standard Dashboard Episode 1
Where I currently work many process improvement projects end up requiring some sort of software deliverable be created and left behind to aid in the sustainment of the process improvement work. Originally these were prototypes developed for a single site,...
The value of an effective stand-up
Lately, I have been thinking about how we could execute our stand-up meeting better. Usually when I start questioning the effectiveness of something I like to refocus on the intended value. I recalled a post I read quite a while...
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