Projects need decisions. Unknown or unclear decisions might lead to undesirable actions. False decisions can even derail entire projects. Clearly, this is not the case for all decisions but for the important ones that give a project direction. Given the importance of decisions, some thought should be given to how decisions are reached. Surprisingly, many…
Large user stories (features) may pose a challenge even for teams that are quite efficient in producing high-quality releases consisting of small-to-medium size user stories. By large, we mean stories that take a considerable time for specification and/or development (more than a week for example) or have a high degree of complexity. Oftentimes, the same…
Blockers, stale tickets, bottlenecks need to be managed regularly to establish flow. An obvious choice for such a flow management to take place is a Daily Standup. Due to the popularity of Scrum, its approach to conducting Daily Scrums has been adopted by many teams for their Daily Standup even those not using Scrum. Is…