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The Big Wall: Prioritizing and Estimating Large Backlogs

Posted Jul 2, 2012 in Agile, Scrum, Estimation, and XP - 0 Comments

Youve just finished a great story-writing workshop with your stakeholders. Youre excited about the new product and are anxious to get started. Until, that is, you get back to your office and look at the mountain of stories that youve somehow got...

Win a Copy of The Scrum Field Guide

Posted Apr 1, 2012 in Agile, Scrum, Planning, Estimation, Leadership, XP, Management, and Musings - 0 Comments

Scrum Field Guide Cover The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year is now shipping (link to Amazon)! Throughout the month of April I will be giving away a signed copy of the book to four readers of this blog.

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Free Chapters from The Scrum Field Guide

Posted Mar 20, 2012 in Agile, Scrum, Planning, Estimation, Leadership, XP, Management, and Musings - 0 Comments

Scrum Field Guide CoverAddison Wesley informed me that theyve made a chapters available from my upcoming book, The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year. It includes the forwards by Jeff Sutherland and Jim Highsmith as well as Chapter 27, Documentation...

Even 3rd Graders are Project Managers

Posted Jan 21, 2012 in Agile, Scrum, Planning, Estimation, and Musings - 0 Comments

Looking for ways to use agile practices at home? This blog post was written in 2006 but it still applies today. I've since expanded it to my other kids (we had more).


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