How to deal with excessively large backlogs to revitalize your team’s workflow and performance.

Last week, we discussed the challenges small teams face and how to best deal with them. On the other end of the spectrum, large teams...

While all teams face challenges, those challenges vary by the size of the team. Small team Agile best practices can help overcome many of...

Holidays can disrupt scheduling, tracking, and planning. See the best practices to adjust holiday scheduling to prevent team cadence disrupt

Preplanning a Sprint too much restricts the team’s ability to perform at their best, so it’s all about finding the right balance.

One dilemma teams face as they are organizing is what approach they should use to determine how long their sprints last. The decision is...

At first, the concept of a “point” is awkward and obscure, but as the team evolves, points become a very efficient way of estimating how...

A recent client of mine was really struggling with their team’s accountability. One of the biggest issues, it turned out, was injected...

Rolling user stories from one sprint to another is a common challenge. Often these are the clear-cut reasons why stories are rolling.