I've written before that we should only estimate if having the estimate will change someone's actions. Normally, this means that the team should estimate work only if having the estimate will either: enable the product owner to better prioritize the…
With over 500k agile projects in JIRA (among just Cloud customers – wow!), we realized we’re sitting on a ton of data that sheds light on how agile teams function. We then bet, that with some anonymized data mining, we…
Can you develop new products from scratch in one day? This challenge was taken on by the Medical HW manufacturer Optinova in August. Over the course of two days, we pushed the limits of “what is possible” by applying Agile…
At a large big room planning (BRP) event run by one of our customers recently, between 400 and 500 people spent two days planning their next 12 weeks of work. The stakes were high, as the health care product they…
Many projects bog down during requirements gathering. This is dangerous because it wastes valuable time, often setting up a project to be late. To avoid this problem, I like to engage users and stakeholders in very lightweight story-writing workshops. Before…