All PBIs completed by the team should be “potentially releasable” increments of valuable functionality i.e. working features or functions. In order to do this, they must touch all the layers […]
Screening Organizations as an Agile Candidate
A lot of Agile recruitment articles provide tips on the language and qualities that a good Agile candidate should use in their application. I want to flip that and help […]
Scrum Rules: The Product Backlog is Ordered to Maximize Value
Product Backlog Items (PBIs) are ordered into a sequence in the Product Backlog in such a way that the Product Owner is able to maximize value or more specifically, the […]
Scrum Rules: The Product Backlog Relates to a Single Product
Scrum Teams work on one product at a time. The Product Backlog represents all of the work that needs to be done on that single product. The complete list of […]
Scrum Rules: The Product Backlog Is Ordered by the Product Owner
The Product Backlog must be ordered so that the Product Backlog Items represent a sequence of valuable pieces of product to be built. There is always a first item (not […]
Scrum Rules: The Product Backlog
Organizations often need to plan their product development further than just the next week or so. The Product Backlog is the artifact of Scrum that considers anything beyond the current […]
Scrum Rules: The Scrum Team Does Not Include Any Other People
Since the Scrum Team only includes three roles: Scrum Master, Product Owner, and the Development Team Members, there is no need to have other people on the team. Each of […]
Scrum Rules: The Scrum Team Includes Three Roles
There are three roles on a Scrum Team, no more and no less. These roles are: Scrum Master, Product Owner, and the Development Team Members. It is critical to have […]
Scum Rules: The Development Team Has No Dependencies
The Development Team is the subset of the Scrum Team that is actually working on building the Product Increment every Sprint. It usually does not include the Scrum Master nor […]
Scrum Rules: The Scrum Team Is Made Up of Five to Eleven People
A very effective learning that has come out of many fields of research is that we function well in small groups, specifically groups that range from five to seven people […]