Clearing up questions and confusions related to INVEST criteria, story splitting, and scope creep in an Agile development sprint.
Scrum
Story Slicing, How Small is Enough?
Smaller stories tend to get more accurate estimates. This is my guidance for new Scrum teams, and ScrumMasters, trying to decide on Story size.
Agile and Scrum Smells
Smells are a series of simple patterns in Scrums that describe a problem, which can then lead to potential solutions.
Solve your Task Estimation problem in Scrum
I’m often asked about improving the estimates of task hours generated during planning meetings. Years of waterfall development have taught us – if we improve the estimates we will do a much better job of tracking the sprint progress. When this comes up I like to ask two questions: why estimate task size at all? […]
I was Wrong about Re-Estimation
I’m just starting to learn and implement Scrum without yet having completed the CSM training. I’ve years of reading about Agile Software development including the original Scrum Book. So I thought I had a solid understanding. However putting theory into practice always reveals questions that I’d never considered. Recently on the Scrum List I asked […]