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Is it Dysfunctional to Sit at Your Stand-up?

October 23rd, 2009 Jason No comments

It’s called the daily standup for a reason.  It happens daily and you standup.  Why do you standup?  You stand-up in order to keep the meeting short.  Each team member should answer 3 quick questions:

what did I do yesterday?
what am I planning on doing today?
what’s in my way?

I’m amazed at all the grumbling I hear [...]

Using extremely short sprints for small teams

May 11th, 2009 Jason No comments

Today we are experimenting with 1 day sprints as an attempt to clear a large backlog of product work and client related work. During our last retrospective we noticed that there was at least one interruption each day during the sprint and while they were small, it’s still proving the point that when your [...]

Simple method for handling tough task breakout sessions

September 22nd, 2008 Jason No comments

Sometimes you may find that developers have a really great understanding of the business value of a story and understand what needs to be built but then the nasty implementation discussion begins and the team has a hard time figuring out how to do their task breakout.  “How do we know the tasks when we [...]

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