by JJ Sutherland | Feb 24, 2016 | Scrum Framework |
Writing Better User Stories User Stories are Product Backlog Items that are descriptions of functionality. The User Story always takes the form: “As a ______ I want to ___________ so that I can ______.” Many teams struggle with getting user stories small...
by Patrick Roach | Oct 13, 2015 | Blog |
by JJ Sutherland | Aug 25, 2015 | Blog, Scrum in Agile |
Hyper-Productive Metrics Hyper-Productive metrics are designed to help Scrum Masters carefully tune their teams into a hyper-productive state. Hyper-Productivity is defined as a 400% increase in Velocity over the baseline Velocity with corresponding quality. The...
by JJ Sutherland | Aug 10, 2015 | Blog |
Aggressive Scrum The 2015 Chaos Report from the Standish Group shows only 39% of Agile teams are successful – that means that 61% of them are not meeting the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto. Aggressive Scrum focuses on using Scrum...
by JJ Sutherland | Mar 26, 2015 | Blog, Scrum Framework |
Getting to Done The second value in the Agile Manifesto is to have working product at the end of every sprint. Yet only 20% of teams that call themselves ‘Agile’ actually do. There is a lot of bad agile out there. It doesn’t have to be this way. Getting to...