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The second activity and third stage in the Agile Roadmap to Value is release planning. A release, in agile terms, is a group of usable product features that you release to production. A release does not need to include all the functionality outlined in the product...

The product roadmap comes right after the vision statement and represents stage 2 in our Agile Roadmap to Value. Its purpose is to give you a high-level overview of the product requirements, allowing you to prioritize, group and categorize features. It's also a great...

One of the most popular ways of estimating requirements is by playing estimation poker, sometimes called Planning Poker®. Estimation poker is a game scrum teams can use to determine relative requirement size and to build consensus among development team members. When...

The sprint review is a vital part of agile project management's inspect and adapt cycle. Together with the sprint retrospective they form the core feedback loop between the sprints. The sprint review meeting has two goals: for the team to demonstrate what they have...

Agile project management is an inspect and adapt approach. This means that agile processes don't just encourage, but require you to regularly stop what you are doing, assess where you are and find ways to improve the rest of your journey toward the project goal. The...

Scrum processes include four meetings that should be present in every scrum project: the sprint planning meeting, the daily scrum, the sprint review and the sprint retrospective. Each of them occur at a different time in the sprint lifecycle and lasts for a specified...

Stage 3 of the Roadmap to Value is creating the release plan. A release is a set of minimally marketable features – the smallest group of product features that you can effectively deploy and promote in the marketplace. A release plan contains a set of features and a...

Following The Platinum Edge Agile Roadmap to Value, the first and foremost step in any project is to create the product vision statement. The vision statement is like a lighthouse, shining a beacon that you can see from afar. It's here so you can be sure you are...

Agile projects contain a relatively short project planning period at the project start. During project planning, the project team meets to set the tone of the project at the strategic level, which guides them to project completion. Unlike traditional project planning,...

The product backlog is an ordered list of all project requirements. Started at the beginning of a project, this single list of requirements is arguably the most important artifact in any agile project. Requirements in agile projects generally follow the user story...

The Certified Scrum Master (CSM) exam certification process is currently going through some changes. Until now, everybody who attended a Certified ScrumMaster course and took the exam, passed. However, starting  on September 1, 2012, the Scrum Alliance  will update...