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Upping Your Game: Rubix Cube to Value Added User Stories – Part 1
One of the most common problems with existing well-established agile development teams is that they have issues delivering value-added user…
Managing the Product Backlog – Part 2
In the first part of this blog on Managing Product Backlogs, we learned about the importance of blending product discovery…
How Do You Identify (And Avoid) Fake Scrum Masters?
After working with dozens of teams over the past few years, I have trained and mentored many Scrum Masters that…
AWS is the Ultimate Cloud Computing Option for Companies on the Atlassian Tech Stack
If you’re currently running the Atlassian tech stack and consider migrating to the cloud, you should take a closer look…
eXtreme Programming (XP) – Key Practices You Need to Explore for Your Team
eXtreme Programming (also known as “XP”) is one of the most popular software engineering methods originally introduced in the 1990’s.…
The Story of Stories: Managing the Product Backlog
The Story of Stories: Managing the Product Backlog - Part 1 In previous installments in this series, There's a…
Agile Team Design – Key Factors for Success
Recently I was asked to consult a program that had been “doing Agile” for almost a year because this group…
Creating Product Backlogs
In our series around product management, the first blog about creating product backlogs, addresses our persona discussion, where we established…
Advanced Git Commands: Cherry-Picking
As developers, we first start out learning to use Git via simple repetition. We do the typical Git pull, Git…
Getting from an Idea to Actionable Backlog
The Gaps in Your Agile Methodology No One Talks About - Part 2 Where Do Stories Come From? Webinar Synopsis…
Dojo Discovery Sprint
Author: Kevin Burns, DevJam Dojo Coach with help from the Thomson Reuters’ Litigation Analytics dojo team. In the spirit of…
What Does a Good Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Look Like?
The key to a successful Minimum Viable Product is not any specific feature or any product-oriented characteristic. In fact, a…