Beyond the Product Demo: Choosing the Right Validation Technique in Scrum

Summary Scrum employs the product demo as its default technique to understand if the right product with the right features…

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Scrum Masters: What Makes a Good One?

Yes, that’s right. I am writing a blog post today about Scrum and Scrum Masters. No, I haven’t lost my…

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How Agile is a Scrum team?

Most teams I meet today are agile. Or, so they proclaim to be. All of these teams do Scrum, and…

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Every Great Product Owner Needs a Great ScrumMaster

Summary The product owner and the ScrumMaster are two separate agile roles that complement each other. To do a great…

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What we can learn from Scrum

Even if for any reason you cannot apply nor introduce Agile methodologies in your organization, there are of course still…

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Micro-Scrum: A stamp-sized version of Scrum

“Show what you’ve done to someone who cares frequently” Are you working in the way you are because it’s a…

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So, what’s in a story?

I don’t know about you, but I always feel a little nervous when it comes to writing Agile stories. I…

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Design Doesn’t Emerge from Code

I know a lot of people who are transitioning to Agile or already following Agile development methods. Almost all of…

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Hardening Sprints. What are they? Do you need them?

For anyone who is developing software using Scrum, XP or another incremental development approach, the idea of a “hardening sprint”…

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