Archive for August, 2009

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Sprint Planning: Hours or Story Points (?) – that is the question!

There is a lot of debate about whether to estimate sprint requirements in hours or to leave them in Story Points. Personally, I see pros and cons of both approaches but would use Story Points over hours where/whenever possible.

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Agile101 Goes International!

Agile 101 is now available in 21 languages (!) including: French, German, Hindi, Portugese, Italian, Spanish…

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Agile Epic Board – Epic Card Template

Although I use this board to track our development programme across multiple products, teams and sprints, the Epic Board can also be a very useful project management tool. See The Epic Board – An Essential Project Management Tool.

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Sprint Backlog Template with Objective-Level Burndowns

A Sprint Backlog Template is used to track progress against Sprint Commitments.

This Sprint Backlog template is slightly more complex than your bog-standard template as it also allows you to track Stretch Tasks and Sprint Progress at a Category/Objective-Level.

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Agile Project Management is Like Teenage Sex

I just stumbled upon a really funny, tongue-in-cheek comparison between Agile Adoption and Teenage Sex of all things. It made me laugh so I thought I’d share it!

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Doing Agile is a Sign of Incompetence

There seems to be a lot of hype around about the difference between ‘Doing Agile’ and ‘Being Agile’ – the conversation seems to be getting rather heated to say the least!…

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Agile Estimation and the Cone of Uncertainty

The Cone of Uncertainty is a Project Management term used to describe the level of uncertainty existing at different stages of a project.

In short, we become more certain of our estimates as we learn more about what we’re estimating.

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Contribute to Agile101! Post an article, submit a review, share a template!

Announcement: Agile101.net is now 1 month old – and what a month it has been! I’m going to keep writing articles, sharing templates and posting videos but would like to take the opportunity to invite you all to become part of the growing Agile101 community.

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Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great

A really informative Google Tech Talk by Diana Larsen and Esther Derby, authors of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.

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An Introduction to Lean for Agile Managers

Diana Larsen, chair of the Agile Alliance, delivers a really informative, and easy-to-follow seminar on the subject of Lean for Agile Managers. In this seminar, Diana explains the origins of Lean, elaborates upon the seven core Principles of Lean and offers insight into ways to maximise value and reduce waste.

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