Positive sprint reviews increase customer confidence in the team and the team’s confidence in itself. If the review goes badly, the trust will degrade, just as we saw in the story. At the same time, don’t forget that the main purpose of the sprint review is not a round of applause for a job well done. The real goal of a sprint review is to stop and ascertain whether the project is on the right track. [...] Because a positive review experience is so important to the project’s success, take a ...

Martin Alaimo thinks that personal issues are rarely discussed in Scrum retrospectives. In this article, he discusses how he includes in retrospectives a special section to address personal issues. He explains how he uses retrospectives to build Scrum between the Scrum team members. Martin starts personal retrospectives with ans exercise that will prove to the team that it will achieve better results working collaboratively. He proposes an exrecises where each person steps in front of the audience and answers the following three questions (scoring the answer on a scale of 1 ...

The Continuous Improvement Framework (CIF™) helps organizations using Scrum manage their investment in becoming more agile,providing an effective way to continuously improve and gain a competitive advantage

Scrum.org and Scrum co-creator, Ken Schwaber have unveiled the Continuous Improvement Framework (CIFâ„¢) at the Microsoft-sponsored, ALM Summit 3 in Redmond. The CIF was created to help organizations respond to opportunities and challenges and to understand their return on investment in Scrum. CIF enables organizations to gauge their level of agility on a continuous basis and understand how effectively the value of their products is being managed. Through the use of designed metrics, it helps organizations identify and apply practices that will yield the greatest increase in quality, maximum ROI, ...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of Hudson 3.0. Used around the world with more than 30,000 installations, Hudson is a continuous integration (CI) server used to significantly improve the software development process. Hudson increases productivity by coordinating and monitoring ...

Visual Paradigm International Limited announced today the release of Agilian 10.1. Agilian provides a set of sophisticated modeling toolsets including UML, Business Process Modeling (BPMN), EPC Diagram, Process Map Diagram, Mind Map Diagram, User Interface Designer, ERD, DFD, Textual Analysis an ...

The Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices announced that speaker submissions for Agile2013 close this Friday, February . With four days remaining, Agile2013 organizers encourage software profession ...

As my life responsibilities started growing, I began to feel the need to hire a domestic helper. The triple constraints of time, money, and relationships in life were what I was fighting through. Keeping myself busy on trivial issues that I was ...

Rally introduces AgileZen for iPad, bringing the power of Rally's simple, real-time project collaboration solution to the iPad. Built natively for iOS, AgileZen elegantly displays projects visually on the iPad as an electronic drag-and-drop board. AgileZen syncs activity between its iPad and ...

AgileZen for iPad brings the power of Rally’s simple, real-time project collaboration solution to the iPad. Built natively for iOS, AgileZen elegantly displays projects visually on the iPad as an electronic drag-and-drop board. AgileZen syncs activity between its iPad and cloud apps in real-time to keep distributed team members up-to-date, organized and efficient. AgileZen uses a Lean concept called Kanban to allow teams to customize their workflow, see the status of a project at a glance, and understand how their process can be improved to eliminate waste and create more value. ...

Project management software, Project Insight, announces the release of version 10.1. This popular online project and portfolio management solution is designed for mixed project teams, having robust features that satisfy experienced project managers, yet remaining easy for new team members to adopt. The new features are designed to provide mission critical information more readily, and include: agile burn down charts, S-curves, saved dashboards, new graphical charts and more. As agile methodology grows in popularity, Project Insight adds new agile features to version 10.1 of the project software. Managers can now track ...

Scrum is easy; implementation is hard probably you've already heard that many times. The same goes for some particular tools, like planning poker. The practice itself is very straightforward, but how to use it productively over a long pe...

A sprint goal is defined as the desired outcome of an iteration. The sprint goal provides a shared objective and represents the reason for undertaking the sprint. In this blog post, Roman Pichler explains what sprint goals are, why they matter, how to write and to track them. Roman Pichler thinks that every sprint should have one shared goal. At the end of the sprint, the stakeholder feedback will be used to understand if the goal has been met. He sees the following main benefits for sprint goals, particularly for new ...