Three Enhanced Release Burndown patterns
The Enhanced (or Alternative) Release Burndown graph [1],[2] is a great tool and one of my personal favourites. It demonstrates several things very clearly. It demonstrates: The rate at which work is being completed by the team The rate at which new work is being added to the product backlog And, it can be used … Read more
Seven common Sprint Burndown graph signatures
This first appeared on the ScrumAlliance.org website on October 30th. It is presented here in its original unedited form. 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 … Read more
Writing User Stories
This last week I was at the ScrumExchange conference down in Palo Alto. It was an great conference and I especially enjoyed the sessions led by Matt Smith [2]. They were thought provoking and very entertaining … an great foil for some of the other heavy material.
Technical debt, and the Death of Design: Part 2
This is the second article that I wrote for the Scrum Alliance [3]. It was orginally published on July 24 and can be found here. The article presented below is the original unedited version with all my grammar and spelling mistakes!
Technical Debt and the Death of Design: Part 1
InfoQ readers: There is an incorrect link on InfoQ. If you’re looking for the Rothman article on addressing technical debt, you can find it here. But since you’re here already, why not stay a while and enjoy the view? This article was written for the ScrumAlliance [3] and featured on the site on 17th July, … Read more
