Category: Agile

  • Patterns for Splitting User Stories

    (Source: http://www.richardlawrence.info/2012/01/27/new-story-splitting-resource/) JANUARY 27, 2012 More than two years after I originally published it, “Patterns for Splitting User Stories” remains one of the most visited posts on my blog. Splitting user stories continues to be one of the areas where the teams I work with most often need coaching. To support the teams I coach, I’ve created…

  • You do not want agile

    No really….. you don’t. Well, maybe you do, but the boardroom certainly doesn’t. They have never heard about agile, let alone what it is all about. Is this something that will help us solve our problems or just a new IT buzzword? Upper level management doesn’t think in terms of agile, they think in terms…

  • Different forces in Scrum and Kanban for the common goal

    Scrum and the Kanban method use different forces to achieve this same goal of creating the most possible value over time for the organization by continuously inspecting and adapting the processes and tools. In Scrum the main forces are the time boxed S…