We’ve added two new tools for prioritizing a product backlog: Theme Screening and Theme Scoring. Each of these is a lightweight way of comparing product backlog items to one another.
Theme Scoring
You can use theme scoring to compare user stories or entire projects against one another. In this technique you identify a set of criteria that [...]
A nice side effect of having the Succeeding with Agile book done and in print is that some of my time has freed up for other projects. One such project has been the creation of some tools for agile and Scrum projects that we’re making available on the Mountain Goat Software website.
I’ve wanted to make [...]
A nice side effect of having the Succeeding with Agile book done and in print is that some of my time has freed up for other projects. One such project has been the creation of some tools for agile and Scrum projects that we’re making available on the Mountain Goat Software website.
I’ve wanted to make [...]
We’re proud to announce that Mountain Goat Software has become a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP).
Attendees at our courses have always been able to claim Professional Development Units (PDUs) for our courses, but becoming a Registered Education Provider through the PMI allows us to offer Category 3 PDUs. This makes PDU [...]
We are now able to ship Planning Poker cards via FedEx. We’ve had a lot of requests for this since taking our store live a year or two ago and the delay was the inability to get “live rates” from FedEx. A live rate is calculated on the weight, box and destination and FedEx can [...]
Agile Journal has published an article of mine called, “Determining How Agile You Are Comparatively.” It is about the Comparative Agility project. If you haven’t looked at this before, please do. It’s an effort to collect data on how agile various companies are so that they can compare themselves (anonymously).
The Agile Journal article includes a [...]
It seems like time for a new contest with the winner getting a free copy of Succeeding with Agile, my new book.
In Succeeding with Agile, I describe a waterfallacy as “a mistaken belief or idea about agile or Scrum created from working too long on waterfall projects.” And I give some examples, including these:
Scrum [...]
An audio recording of a January session on “Leading a Self-Organizing Team” has been added. You can access both the slides and MP3 of the audio from this session.
Wow. You posted nearly 200 bits of advice in response to the contest to provide your one best tip for “succeeding with agile.” Everybody here is wonderful and we generated a pile of great advice for anyone stumbling across the post. I feel like I could just print the comments page and have a whole [...]
Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum is now shipping. To celebrate, I will be giving a copy of the book to two readers of this blog.
To win, enter as a comment to this post the one most valuable bit of advice you would give to a team that wanted to succeed with agile. [...]