Building a Better Backlog Q&A

On March 5th, I presented the webinar, “Building a Better Backlog: Strategies for Long Term Success in Agile Development.” In the session, I shared strategies on how to build and maintain a good product backlog by describing the overall concepts and techniques for backlog management and how each of the project contributors can contribute to [...]

Agile Success Requires More than Just Standing Up

The Wall Street Journal recently published a piece on the Agile practice of daily stand-up (or daily Scrum) meetings and specifically the fact that Agile encourages standing up during stand-up meetings. While I’m impressed and amused that the author managed to fill several paragraphs discussing standing up in stand-up meetings, the fact that the Wall [...]

The Backlog Refinement Meeting (or Backlog Grooming)

The Backlog Refinement Meeting is also called Product Backlog Grooming, Backlog Estimation, and even Story Time. Ken Schwaber didn’t give it an official name in the original Scrum books but he did say the team should set aside a little time for this every single Sprint. For example, if you’re doing two-week Sprints, the team [...]