One of the courses our customers request the most is the Certified ScrumMaster training. This is an introductory to intermediate level class that teaches the skills needing to start leading a self-organizing team. After one of the sessions this year, we asked Xavier Quesada Allue, the trainer, to tell us a bit more about his …
(Guest blog post by Jurgen De Smet, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission.) The hardest part of an organization, and therefore its management, is sharing the enthusiasm with the entire organization, especially when most of the people in there are making one-tenth to one-fiftieth of what top managers make. Selling the company to …
Last year I was fortunate enough to be the Product Owner of a team that built and deployed code every hour for three consecutive days. This post describes how we did it and what the conclusions were. We will repeat the experiment at the I T.A.K.E. Unconference, at the end of this month.
(Guest blog post by Markus Gärtner, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission.) Last week I organized together with my colleague Meike Mertsch a Testing Dojo for a client of ours. The testers there had attended some Testing Dojos in the past, but with some drawbacks. As part of the clarification process the testers picked an internal …
After an initial romance with use cases, the agile community embraced user stories as its de facto standard for documenting requirements. You have probably seen them a lot by now and maybe even wrote a few: As a <user type> I want <action> So that <benefit> To make them more versatile, Mike Cohn introduced two additional …
