Is there a planning meeting in Kanban? While development teams often think, that using a task board and doing Kanban are the same, that’s not true. Kanban is a system which is highly focused on core metrics, and of course work and delivery is planned in Kanban organizations. This article explains how work can be planned and organized with Kanban cadences.
Where to find your next task in a pull system? Though, the answer to this question seems simple at first glance, human beings often times tend to choose the task with the biggest fun factor. This article shows why it makes sense to select the task according to specific criteria.
What do the story point values mean? This is a question that people ask themselves very often when participating in planning poker. This article shows how we can get intuitive access to agile estimation techniques with the help of visual support.
A beginner’s guide to story mapping answers the questions many organizations ask about agile transitions. Where do our requirements come from? How should our teams be structured? In what form do we deliver our product and what value does it deliver to the customer? Story mapping can provide answers to all of these questions.
Many authors consider technical debt and bugs identical and equate the reduction of bugs with the repayment of technical debt. Unfortunately, this is wrong. This article explains the characteristics of technical debt and bugs, and why it is important to differentiate.
Agile purists often believe that there are exactly two types of requirements in an agile organization – epics and user stories. In this article I explain why it makes sense to look at technical stories in addition to user stories.
Story points are superior to effort estimations. Nevertheless, classic effort estimations are still part of day-to-day business in many companies. In agile companies, they have been replaced by complexity estimates with story points. Read now, why this makes sense!
The Fibonacci sequence and the Cone of Uncertainty are two concepts which repeatedly appear in agile development and aim to the very heart of agile estimation techniques. This article is going to tell you why this the case and where both concepts originate from.
Often newly certified Scrum Masters or beginners in the field of Scrum wonder how a retrospective is actually conducted. This article gives a short introduction to the execution of Scrum retrospectives.