Branch by Sprint
I ran into a new branching strategy, branch by sprint, this week. I will have to admit it was a new one to me. I've seen branching by environment (dev, test, staging, prod), branching by developer, and branching by feature/user story. I had not considered branching for a sprint. (more…)
Bees and Ants in Agile? Swarming for Problem Solving
One of the key underpinnings of Agile is the concept that the things that have the most value go first. In Business as Usual conditions this means items land in…
Most sprint planning meetings are Crap! How do I make mine great? (Part One)
Our teams break down sprint planning into two main meetings: the "What" meeting and the "How" meeting. The "What" meeting involves the product owners and stakeholders. The "How" meeting is…
What is a Scrum Development Team?
Don't limit your thinking when it comes to defining "what" a Scrum development team is. It is not just those writing code. It's not just developers or programmers. The team…
Agile Lexicon Term: Sprint
Sprint - a short development circle time boxed to typically two week periods in which the development works to complete the user stories they committed to during Sprint Planning.
Agile Lexicon Term: Sprint Backlog
Sprint Backlog - the collection of user stories committed to by the development team during the "How" meeting of Sprint Planning.
How to Groom User Stories
User stories start their lives as an unruly mess. They often have just the briefest of descriptions, no direction and no vision for what they will be when they mature…
