One of the difficulties with estimating story points is ensuring that the whole team’s input is considered without members input being influenced by the views of other members of the team. Planning Poker is one of the approaches used for obtaining story points. It’s a consensus based approach that values input from all team members, by avoiding estimate anchoring.
Scrum and Agile Project Management
These days it seems that everyone wants to be Agile. This is a good thing as Agile presents a number of benefits to organisations that have a need for project based working. There are however a number of misconceptions about what Agile is and how it works, one of the biggest is that Scrum is all that is required to manage projects in an agile way. Read More
Definition of Done
Scrum requires that each Sprint deliver a usable product increment at the end of the time-boxed Sprint. In order for the product increment to be usable it must have had all required work completed. Any incomplete work is likely to render the product increment unusable, at least until the work has been completed in a later Sprint. Read More
What’s a Story Point
When more than one team is involved in a project it becomes necessary to ensure synchronisation between the multiple teams. The Scrum of Scrums meeting is the process for ensuring this synchronisation. As with the Scrum meetings it is an opportunity to provide updates, discuss challenges faced and coordinate activities. Read More
Scrum of Scrums
When more than one team is involved in a project it becomes necessary to ensure synchronisation between the multiple teams. The Scrum of Scrums meeting is the process for ensuring this synchronisation. As with the Scrum meetings it is an opportunity to provide updates, discuss challenges faced and coordinate activities. Read More
MoSCoW Prioritisation
Prioritisation of requirements has always been important. Even more so in Agile projects. This is because in Agile time is fixed and it is scope that is more flexible.
The timebox nature of Agile methods such as Scrum and Atern mean that it is important that the whole team understands the priorities and has the same understanding of what the priorities mean. Prioritisation is therefore vital to making progress on the right things and enabling the meeting of deadlines that results in successful delivery.