Story Pointing Basics Alright, let’s take a look now at story pointing what are story points. Chances are you’ve heard a lot about story points, so let’s get to the bottom of exactly what they are and how they are used. Story points are used by teams to reflect the complexity or difficulty of a …
Better meetings start off well We have all been in meetings that we immediately knew were headed nowhere. If a meeting starts off poorly it is next to impossible to get things back on track. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a few simple principles to ensure a productive start to your meetings? I’ve put …
Agile has Two Guiding Tenets Deliver small units of value to customers frequently Adapt to changing requirements and conditions based on feedback These go hand-in-hand as the first delivers to the customer and the second receives feedback from the customer to inform the future work. This loop can be applied to almost anything in life …
So many people are working from home right now and they have been for some time. Here are a few tips on how to make working from home work better for you! Do you have a hard time “leaving” work when you work from home? Not having a commute or a clear separation of where …
Staying creative in these crazy times can be tough but creativity is the key to both sanity and innovation. We have all hear how important going for a walk is to stay active and help refocus our minds on something other than work. Why not turn those daily walks into photo safaris where you take …
Are you occasionally frustrated that you aren’t accomplishing your goals? Do you get frustrated when you aren’t sure what specific task you should be focusing on? These feelings are more and more common these days as people struggle to find meaning in their day between Zoom calls and status updates. The reason we all go …
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Communication is an essential ingredient for business success and at the team level, it is possibly the most important ingredient of all. You have probably worked on teams where the lines of communication got twisted or tangled. In those cases, it is hard to accomplish much of anything and even if you do there’s a …
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Having a fallback plan seems like a good idea, but it isn’t and your team shouldn’t have them. Simply put, taking the time to formulate a Plan B reduces the drive to accomplish Plan A. Your team should put all its eggs in one basket when it comes to delivering what the customer needs and …
Behavioral Driven Development is a method of breaking down customer requirements into discrete, real-life scenarios at the feature level. Simply put it is a way to use plain customer activities and expectations, known as customer requirements, to craft the feature set for a product. These customer requirements are then used to create the User Story …
Most teams suffer from unconscious bias. In fact the more strongly you feel your team does not have this problem, the more likely it does. Unconscious bias is an unrecognized perception or judgment about a group, individual, or process that when compared to another is unfair. Why is unconscious bias bad for business? Hiring Practices …
