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Is your Scrum team's Sprint review unproductive or stuck in a rut? Read on to discover some common mistakes Scrum teams make in their Sprint planning and reviews.

June 1, 2017

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 5,581 Views · 4 Likes

27 Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams

Are your Sprints not working the way you'd like? Read to get tips on how to address issues with the Scrum team, product owner, and Scrum Master.

May 17, 2017

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 15,108 Views · 6 Likes

What Is Scrum? How It Works, Best Practices, and More

If you're trying to implement Agile and Scrum into your development team, read on for the basics of Scrum works, with details on product backlogs, Scrum Masters, etc.

May 14, 2017

by Angela Stringfellow

· 44,754 Views · 3 Likes

The Benefits of Behavior-Driven Development

BDD is described as a high-automation agile methodology. Learn more about what it is and how to implement it in your development and testing.

Updated May 12, 2017

by Lea Maya Karam

· 28,879 Views · 4 Likes

How and Why Does Top-Down Programming Work?

While not as popular as it once was, top-down programming still provides structure, hierarchy, and organization to developers who might be adrift otherwise.

May 12, 2017

by Ashley Kornee

· 38,311 Views · 10 Likes

A Retrospective Idea: Formula 1 Pit Stop

Inspiration can come from anywhere. One Agile Coach shares how he was inspired to tweak his Sprint Retrospective and Planning meetings by Formula 1 Pit Stop crews.

May 5, 2017

by Kwasi Owusu-Asomaning

· 5,964 Views

SOLID Principles Applied to Swift

Learn to apply the five SOLID principles to the Swift programming language for clean code and a reusable, maintainable component for mobile development.

May 2, 2017

by Marco Santarossa

· 26,288 Views · 5 Likes

28 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns

Is your Agile team struggling? Check out this list of the most common anti-patterns across Agile teams, and see what you should, and shouldn't, be doing.

April 18, 2017

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 17,047 Views · 12 Likes

Scrum Master Misunderstandings

As Agile and Scrum methods become more widely adopted, there's bound to be some confusion. In this post, we look at what a Scrum should, and shouldn't be.

April 7, 2017

by Barry Overeem

· 8,779 Views · 10 Likes

Scrum: 16 Stand-up Anti-Patterns

Daily stand-ups can be a great way of creating cohesion among your team, and keeping everyone on the same page. Here are some patterns that can de-rail a stand-up.

April 6, 2017

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 18,198 Views · 33 Likes

A Product Owner Self-Assessment

Assessing Roman Pichler's Product Management framework, and the use of the DRIVEN acronym in the product manager's role.

Updated March 21, 2017

by Barry Overeem

· 7,691 Views · 4 Likes

A Typical Sprint, Play-By-Play

In this article we look at the mechanics of a Sprint, and at how team members are expected to collaborate in order to produce a release-quality increment.

March 1, 2017

by $$anonymous$$

· 7,077 Views · 8 Likes

Definition of Done

In any organization, there can be varying definitions of the word ''done.'' Which one is the right one? Is there such a thing?

February 10, 2017

by Derek Huether

· 19,269 Views · 9 Likes

A Short Guide on How to Get Started With Agile Project Management

Get started with your first Agile project using this step-by-step guide that will walk you through every aspect of the process

February 8, 2017

by Evgen Domch

· 20,456 Views · 3 Likes

Agile Strategies for Managing Bug Fixes

Real-time test management tools help aid effective collaboration among Agile team members—which is vital for prioritizing bugs in a risk-based software testing approach.

Updated February 8, 2017

by Sanjay Zalavadia

· 9,291 Views · 2 Likes

Pattern of the Month: Proxy Product Ownership

The best PO might have other responsibilities and be too busy to represent stakeholders. This model is found in enterprises where legacy subsystems are being replaced.

February 1, 2017

by $$anonymous$$

· 5,942 Views

Project Management Methodology: A Beginner's Guide

Using a specific methodology can help a Project Manager steer a project in the right direction and work in a structured manner.

January 26, 2017

by Atif Qureshi

· 10,790 Views · 17 Likes

Little's Law, The Latency Effect, and ''Ready for...'' Queues

Bottlenecks between teams aren't so bad if those teams are still chunking through work they need to do...right? Maybe not.

January 26, 2017

by Antony Marcano

· 4,475 Views

Scrum Myths: Scrum Is Meeting-Heavy

Scrum shouldn't consider events as meetings with all the smells attached, but as an opportunity to collaborate, learn, and have fun.

January 24, 2017

by Barry Overeem

· 6,254 Views · 5 Likes

Extreme Programming: Tips and Advantages

In Extreme Programming, instead of delivering everything you could possibly want on some date far in the future, you deliver the software you need as you need it.

January 24, 2017

by Ekaterina Novoseltseva

CORE

· 20,965 Views · 6 Likes

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