Those of us working in agile environments hear words like ‘sprints’, ‘scrum’ and ‘coach’ at work but probably don’t give a lot of thought to their original meaning – and today I want to ruminate about sprints. A sprint, originally, is a race over a short distance. All that matters is getting over the finish …
The prime directive of agile retrospectives: “Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.” This is supposed to create a supportive framework for a meeting where …
Stop using story points and estimating purely based on complexity. Start using coffee points instead. Those working in an agile environment traditionally use story points to estimate the complexity of a task, which is then used to figure out roughly how many stories will fit in a sprint. Evangelists of this method say that estimating …