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Decision Chart: Scrum vs. Scrum-ban
Scrum is a great tool for many development teams, but not all projects fit perfectly within the framework of scrum. Another useful technique that may help some teams is Scrum-ban. Scrum-ban...
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A Quick Comparison of Scrum-ban, Kanban, and Scrum
As we discussed last time, Scrum-ban is ideally suited for tasks that are roughly equally-sized and that are focused on continuous development. Scrum-ban takes some of the concepts of scrum and...
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Managing Your Backlog: How to Break Down Epics into User Stories
As product owners, scrum masters, and agile team members work together to build a backlog for their product, they will inevitably run across large user stories. When a user story is expected to take...
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Agile Story Completion Checklist
As agile stories are finished, the product owner should work with their agile team and the team’s scrum master to make sure that finished stories are truly complete. Typically at the end-of-sprint...
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Three Ways to Handle Interruptions within An Agile Sprint
In an ideal world, the agile scrum team members would be 100% focused on the tasks brought into a sprint and would examine incoming requirements and prioritized those at the next planning session....
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3 Things to Leave Out of Your Next Code Review
Code reviews, whether doing agile software development or using another development methodology, are an integral part of every quality process. They allow both the reviewer and the developer to...
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How to Handle Bugs Logged During a Sprint
During the agile development cycle, sprints are planned with clear cut items committed from the backlog. How should defects that are found in code be handled? Should they be added to the current...
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