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What shall I work on next? Using ageing charts in your Daily Scrum

What shall I work on next? If you facilitate Daily Scrums (or whatever you call your daily meeting), this is never a straightforward question and it can be difficult helping guide teams to the right answer. As a team member, it is never as simple as picking the lowest hanging fruit or the most important …

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All your Story Points are Belong to us

Abstract In this engaging talk, Jose Casal revisits the purpose of producing estimates, challenges some common myths about our popular estimation techniques, considers how to assess if your estimation process is really working for you, and finally, introduces how (and why) flow metrics can produce better forecasting and estimation. Say bye to Velocity. Presentation History …

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Can Kanban and Scrum work together?

Students and clients ask us โ€œCan Kanban and Scrum work together?โ€ all the time. The answer is an emphatic, โ€œOf course!โ€ However, what do you mean by โ€œKanbanโ€? If you are talking about Kanban as a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, work-in-progress limited pull system, then …

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Aging WIP Chart from Actionable Agile

Ticket Size Does Not Matter

In practically every training class and consultancy work we do in Actineo there are two ideas that someone will bring up at some point: Ticket size matters Tickets need to be of the same size To me, those are two myths. I tend to argue that โ€œticket size does NOT matterโ€œ, although what I really …

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Mind your language (if you want to be Agile)

There are four key words in the first value of the Agile Manifesto: โ€œIndividuals and their interactions over processes and toolsโ€ Most of us can spend countless hours debating the value of focusing on people and the dangers related to focusing on processes and tools. Interestingly, in our debates we seem to be oblivious to …

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