Don’t Let Setbacks Derail Your Agile Project
by [Cynthia Kahn](/content/author/ckahn/ "Posts by Cynthia Kahn"/index.html) | May 2, 2020 | Agile Scrum
Take Advantage of these 3 Techniques to Get Your Agile Project Back on Track We’re all learning new ways to live and work in a virtual world. Many have published articles and delivered webinars explaining how to use available web tools so everything functions more...
Why Your Team is Not Agile
by [Cynthia Kahn](/content/author/ckahn/ "Posts by Cynthia Kahn"/index.html) | Apr 22, 2018 | Agile Scrum
Maybe Your Team is not Agile because They Don’t Know How to Be Agile Many Scrum Masters feel frustrated when their team is not agile enough or they don’t practice scrum the “right way.” Probably every Scrum Master feels this way at some time in their career. So, why...
Ensure Project Success by Getting Formal Commitment from your Extended Team
by [Cynthia Kahn](/content/author/ckahn/ "Posts by Cynthia Kahn"/index.html) | Feb 20, 2018 | Agile Scrum
Get Commitment from all Extended Team Resources at Start of your Next Project In today’s business, organization boundaries blur. When you form a new scrum team, you may not get all the desired resources assigned to your Development Team. This is quite common in...
Story Identification for Newbies
by [Cynthia Kahn](/content/author/ckahn/ "Posts by Cynthia Kahn"/index.html) | Jan 21, 2018 | Agile Scrum
Event Modeling is Easy Story Identification Technique For those new to Scrum, Story identification can seem intimidating. Even if you follow our guidelines in Chapter 3 – GSD Gold Approach to Story Writing, you may still have writer’s block. Event modeling is one of...
How Big is Too Big for a Scrum Team?
by [Cynthia Kahn](/content/author/ckahn/ "Posts by Cynthia Kahn"/index.html) | Sep 24, 2017 | Agile Scrum
You May Need to Divide Your Project into More than One Scrum Team In Chapter 1 of the GSD Scrum Handbook, we talk about the size of the GSD Gold scrum team. What is the right number of team members? The Scrum Alliance recommends a scrum team size of no more than 9...
A Spike Story Should Get Story Points Too
by [Cynthia Kahn](/content/author/ckahn/ "Posts by Cynthia Kahn"/index.html) | Sep 10, 2017 | Agile Scrum
Assigning Story Points to each Spike Story Improves Epic Planning Accuracy In Scrum, we have a special type of Story called a Spike. The Product Owner or another team member writes a Spike Story when the team does not understand the requirement well enough to write a...