Agile Transformation

In this video Mark C. Layton, Founder and CEO of Platinum Edge, describes the benefits of agile coaching for large organizations. He touches on the fact that "practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent." It's important to start off right because "if you start...

Swarming is the practice of having the whole development team work on one user story at a time.  It requires a development team to work cross-functionally, and it is easier than you might think.  Here is how you can start swarming on user stories. 1. Create the...

One question that comes up, both with our students and our coaching clients, is this: Where do business analysts fit into agile projects? Business analysts – or BAs – often find themselves in one of three roles on an agile project: the product owner, the product owner...

The development team, also often just called dev team, arguably holds the most vital role in any agile process. While it is the ultimate aim of every scrum master to make his own role redundant and most teams could dysfunctionally continue their work without a product...

Lately, we have been talking about the different roles on a scrum team. Another important scrum role is the product owner. The product owner is the most difficult to equate to a specific traditional project management role, and is therefore sometimes the most...

Scrum projects have a number of teams, and that can be confusing. Let's clear this up. Scrum has three main roles: The scrum master, who helps protect the team from distractions and clear impediments The product owner, who makes decisions about product features and...

To be agile you need to be able to ask, “Is this agile?” If you’re ever in doubt about whether a particular process, practice, tool or approach adheres to the Agile Manifesto or the 12 Agile Principles, refer to the following list of questions: Does what we’re doing...