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• Jan
  21
  Technical stories - are they included on the backlog?

  If you're not already a member of the Scrum development group on Yahoo, you really should join. There's a fortune of information changing hands and you can learn so much from the interactions. Just re ...

  Jack Milunsky
  Agile Project Management

• Jan
  09
  What's the ideal sprint length

  Introduction I may have blogged about this previously. I have written so many blogs, I can't recall any more. However questions regarding Sprint length surface on the forums regularly. As per usual, t ...

  Jack Milunsky
  Agile Project Management

• Jan
  07
  Sprint start and stop days - what's best

  Firstly, let me state that it is imperative that sprint lengths remain consistent. By all means experiment with 1 week, 2 week or 3 week sprints but once you have figured out your sweet spot, stick to ...

  Jack Milunsky
  Agile Project Management

• Nov
  16
  What is a Spike in Scrum

  This question comes up time and time again and the Spike is often confused with the Tracer bullet. Adam Sroka posted a great explanation of the difference between the two on the Yahoo Scrumdevelopment ...

  Jack Milunsky
  Agile Project Management

• Nov
  09
  Do you even need a product backlog?

  A great question was posted on scrumdevelopment group, worthy of discussion. The question posed ... Summary Their business moves very quickly and, more often than not, any stories that enter a sprint ...

  Jack Milunsky
  Agile Project Management

• Nov
  04
  Remote contract workers

  A question posted this morning on one of the Yahoo groups .. " We have a Scrum team in the Silicon Valley and two contractors who work with us remotely. Although they are proficient at what they do, i ...

  Jack Milunsky
  Agile Project Management

• Oct
  16
  State of Agile

  IntroductionSeems like there's lots going on in the agile world right now. Lots of talk about Lean and it's impact on Agile. Lots of attacks going on at the CSM certification. Kanban is all over the n ...

  Jack Milunsky
  Agile Project Management

• Oct
  06
  Stories - how small is too small

  Today over on the Scrum Development forum a question was posted by a member. They have a situation where they have mixed some small stories with some larger ones. And the larger one is LATE - Really l ...

  Jack Milunsky
  Agile Project Management

• Oct
  02
  The 7 Software Development Wastes - Lean series Part 7 - Defects

  Introduction When one looks at all the wastes, defects has to be the most obvious one. The cost and repercussions of finding defects varies depending on where in the cycle they're found. Defects found ...

  Jack Milunsky
  Agile Project Management

• Sep
  23
  The 7 Software Development Wastes - Lean series Part 6 - Delays

  Introduction Interestingly, this weeks blog covers the 6th waste - Delays - as identified in Lean. How appropriate after the long delay since my last blog post on Task Switching. Herein lies an exampl ...

  Jack Milunsky
  Agile Project Management