Requirements and practices
Stuck in the backlogs and planning meetings? Here is a list of essays and articles on Agile tools, practices and concepts.
This list is dynamic and is updated frequently.
Agile Requirements
- Epics and Themes – Clarification of terms
- Six Features of a Good User Story - INVEST Model
- Six features of a good user story - INVEST model renewed
- When, How and Why Definition of Done Should Be Extended
- "I know it doesn't work but it's done" - a story about the definition of done
- Product backlog – Description and examples
- Conditions of satisfaction – How to help developers understand what customer wants
- Measures of size – Sizing the requirements
- Kano model of customer satisfaction – A series of posts on prioritizing the requirements
Also have a look at the other articles tagged with the “requirements” tag
Practices for working with the product backlog
- Prioritizing the Product Backlog – Sample procedure
- Filling the Product Backlog: Go For Excitement – Sample way of stocking the initial product backlog
- Creating the Scrum Product Backlog: Start with the Users! – Preparations for stocking the initial product backlog
- Kano model of customer satisfaction – A series of posts on prioritizing the requirements
- Burn Your Burn-down Charts – Alternatives to the canonical burndown charts
- Many Backlogs for a Single Scrum Team - Pros and cons
Also have a look at the other articles tagged with the “product backlog” tag
Project management
- How to do many projects: with Few People, with Matrix Management, Maintenance, Resource Planning
- How to Handle Many Simultaneous Projects – Experience of a company that specializes on running many small projects simultaneously
- 10 Principles of Agile Project Time Management – Tips and reasons
- Agile Risk Management – Are agile methods strong enough on the risk management side?
- Risk analysis in agile methods – General approach
- How agile has to kill projects – When canceling a project is profitable
- Lowest defect rates - faster schedules – Statistical proofs
Also have a look at the other articles tagged with the “project management” tag
Practices and procedures
- Scrum process overview: schedule
- Extreme Programming - Values, principles and practices
- Sample Sprint Planning Procedure – How you actually do it
- 7 Tips for Improving the Daily Scrum – Making the daily standup serve you better
- Daily Scrum - the feeling of synchronization – Purpose of the meeting
- Predicting the team's Velocity: yesterday's weather method – Way of estimating the team progress
- Pair programming. What researches say on the costs and benefits of the practice – Summary of the research articles
- Five risks of solo programming – Pair programming is good? Solo programming is just too risky
- Maintenance victims - Handling maintenance the Agile way – What to do if maintenance is killing the motivation
- What does it mean to reject sprint content? – Reasons and consequences
- Product owner on retrospectives – When it makes sense
- Pros and cons of short iterations
- Q & A sprints – Special iterations for raising the quality level
Distributed development
- How to Survive Multi-Continent Daily Scrums – Tips for running the distributed daily meetings
- Distributed Development: How important is face-to-face interaction? – India-based experience
- Distributed Agile Development - 2: Managing daily Scrums – Tips for running the distributed daily meetings
- Secret sauce of offshoring and distribution - summary of Scan-Agile open space session
Also have a look at the other articles tagged with the “distributed” tag
Contracts and project initiation
- Finding a Partner to Trust - Using Scrum to Create an Agile RFP
- Finding a Partner to Trust - Writing an Agile RFP to Outsource a SW Development Projects
- Finding a Partner to Trust - Using Competitive Sprints to Select an Agile Software Vendor
- How to get your agile project approved – Preparing the project start
- The Big Development Project: How much should it cost? – Double Worst Case Analysis method
- Five steps for starting the Scrum project – They way that works for many organizations
- Why no fixed contracts in Agile – Reason and further links
- How to use agile methods for the fixed price contracts – What to do if you do need to work on a fixed price contract
Also have a look at the other articles tagged with the “contract” tag
Tools
- Simple Product Backlog Example – Simplest possible example in Excel
- Video tutorial: Managing your Scrum Product Backlog with the help of a simple Excel sheet
- Simple Sprint Backlog Example – Simplest possible example in Excel
- Video tutorial: Managing your Sprint Backlog with the help of a simple Excel sheet
- Scrum backlog templates and examples – A collection of Excel templates and examples
- Scrum/Agile Tools: Quick Look at GreenHopper – A Jira based Scrum tool
Also have a look at all the articles tagged with the “tool” tag
Misc
- Agile Software Development one pager – Most important things in Agile on a single pahe
- Waterfall - Agile team cooperation
- Layered Transparency – Three levels of transparency on the Agile projects
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