Articles covering estimation, flow, team scaling, distributed delivery and more — written from 30 years of hands-on experience with software teams.
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Flow Style and Mileage. Understand team dynamics, pinpoint inefficiencies, and elevate your Agile processes for superior performance.
Master the art of Agile planning with this guide to estimating the size of Epics. Learn to use Monte Carlo simulations for accurate forecasting. Unlock success in your software development projects today.
The Flaws of Using Sub-Tasks to Organize Work in Agile Software Development and Why Moving Stories is the Key to Success
Agile Estimation is broken. Here's how you can fix it with a simple approach that leads to greater predictability.
A collection of real user story examples for you to copy & paste. Useful for teams new to Agile ways of working.
This is your Jira best practices guide to setting up Jira for highly productive software development teams. Packed full of tricks and tips.
Use Constraint-Driven Estimation in the Early Stages of Writing a Business Case to build a simple time and cost model to manage expectations.
Use this free handy tool to understand when you might complete remaining work. Monte-carlo simulator. Probabilistic forecasting.
In this free practical guide we take you through how to deliver software and services at scale using Portfolio Kanban.
In this article we share our experiences of how these 7 Agile metrics can help you to understand how your system of work is performing.
Improve project delivery predictability with these 2 strategies and 17 practical and easy to implement dependency management hacks.
Download your free Agile Software Estimation cheat sheet and toolkit (new 2022 edition) packed full of practical tools for software estimation
An in-depth guide to writing Agile user stories. We share 19 tips for writing better user stories collated from hundreds of Agile teams.
Nine straightforward tips to make your daily stand-ups shorter, more focused and more useful for the whole team.
If you’re going to use story points in Scrum, here’s how to do it. Bonus content - how to estimate easier without using story points at all.
Agile Resource Management is significantly easier than more traditional resourcing models. We show you exactly how resource management works in Agile.
An honest look at whether combining the Product Owner and Scrum Master roles is ever a good idea — and what usually goes wrong when teams try it.
How HR teams can use Kanban to improve visibility, manage workload and deliver better outcomes for the business.
Kanban Classes of Service are perhaps one of the most overlooked and underused concepts in Kanban. Expand your knowledge now with this simple guide.
In this checklist of activities for an Agile Coach, we explore the daily / weekly / quarterly activities of an Agile Coach.
For successful Agile delivery you require 4 critical principles; deliver the right thing, deliver it right, deliver it fast enough and deliver it safely.
Three early warning signs that your Agile scaling effort is going wrong — and what to do before things get worse.
How to structure your organisation to support Agile delivery — team topologies, reporting lines and the common traps to avoid.
Practical approaches to handling defects in a Kanban system — from triage and Classes of Service to preventing defect accumulation.
How Kanban teams can manage the constant tension between planned work and unplanned interruptions without sacrificing flow.
Five team structures that organisations commonly adopt when scaling Kanban — with the trade-offs of each.
How to implement Kanban for your team in 3 easy steps. Go beyond what Kanban is and understand how to implement it effectively.
A Kanban Board is a visual representation of your Kanban system. They are extremely useful for communicating status, progress and issues.
The Kanban vs Scrum debate is a completely pointless argument. Each solves a set of problems. The problems they solve are complementary.
Blockers are known as impediments in Scrum, and issues in traditional project management approaches. A blocker doesn't necessarily have to be a show stopper
Kanban focuses on work visualisation to identify bottlenecks, limiting work in progress to reduce multitasking, and focuses on end-to-end delivery.
How law firms and legal practices can apply Kanban to manage caseloads, improve turnaround times and deliver a better client experience.
