Production Support and Scrum: How should Scrum teams plan for support?
Bugs and support issues don't always wait for a new sprint before rearing their ugly heads. What should a Scrum team do to balance feature development with support activities?
Keep Your Team Seeing RED
How focusing on Requirements gathering, estimation, and delivery (RED) can keep your project in the green.
Language for Discussing Releases
"I'm taking off a letter grade because this wasn't turned in on the due date." "Don't be late!" Growing up, we quickly understand that being late is a bad thing. So when a project runs behind, we do whatever it takes to turn it around, even if those behaviors do more harm than good. Agile projects need a to discuss releases in a way that removes the guilt and focuses on appropriate action.
What's your sign? Find out what your burndown signature says about your team.
Burndown graphs are commonly used in Scrum projects to give the team an understanding of the amount of work remaining for the Sprint (or iteration). In Ken's own words:
“As a team works together, it develop its own style of creating ...