Beyond Cycle Time: Introducing Flow Style and Mileage for Agile Teams
Flow Style and Mileage. Understand team dynamics, pinpoint inefficiencies, and elevate your Agile processes for superior performance.
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Articles covering estimation, flow, team scaling, distributed delivery and more — written from 30 years of hands-on experience with software teams.
Estimating Epics in Agile: Predicting the Unpredictable
How do you estimate epics in Agile when scope is uncertain? This guide covers practical techniques including Monte Carlo simulation to forecast epic completion and support planning.
Agile user stories vs sub-tasks
What's the difference between a user story and a sub-task in Kanban? Most teams get this wrong. We explain the distinction and why it matters for how work flows across your board.
Agile Estimation: Say Goodbye to Story Points
Agile Estimation is broken. Here's how you can fix it with a simple approach that leads to greater predictability.
50 example user stories for Agile Software Development
A collection of real user story examples for you to copy & paste. Useful for teams new to Agile ways of working.
Jira Best Practices for highly productive teams
This is your Jira best practices guide to setting up Jira for highly productive software development teams. Packed full of tricks and tips.
Using Constraint-Driven Estimation in the Early Stages of Writing a Business Case
Use Constraint-Driven Estimation in the Early Stages of Writing a Business Case to build a simple time and cost model to manage expectations.
Probabilistic forecasting: When might we finish?
Use this free handy tool to understand when you might complete remaining work. Monte-carlo simulator. Probabilistic forecasting.
Portfolio Kanban – your free practical guide to delivery at scale
In this free practical guide we take you through how to deliver software and services at scale using Portfolio Kanban.
7 useful Agile Metrics to optimise your learning
In this article we share our experiences of how these 7 Agile metrics can help you to understand how your system of work is performing.
17 Dependency Management Hacks to Improve Flow Efficiency
Improve project delivery predictability with these 2 strategies and 17 practical and easy to implement dependency management hacks.
Free Agile Estimation Cheat Sheet
Download your free Agile Software Estimation cheat sheet and toolkit (new 2022 edition) packed full of practical tools for software estimation
19 Tips for Writing Better User Stories
An in-depth guide to writing Agile user stories. We share 19 tips for writing better user stories collated from hundreds of Agile teams.
9 tips to improve your Agile daily stand-ups
Nine straightforward tips to make your daily stand-ups shorter, more focused and more useful for the whole team.
How to do Agile story point estimation
If you’re going to use story points in Scrum, here’s how to do it. Bonus content - how to estimate easier without using story points at all.
The 3 Most Important Concepts To Grasp About Resource Management In An Agile Environment
Agile Resource Management is significantly easier than more traditional resourcing models. We show you exactly how resource management works in Agile.
Can The Product Owner And Scrum Master Be The Same Person?
Short answer: it's usually a bad idea. The two roles have conflicting priorities by design. We explain why, cover the rare exceptions, and show what to do instead.
Kanban for HR
How HR teams can use Kanban to improve visibility, manage workload and deliver better outcomes for the business.
How Kanban Classes of Service Can Help You To Manage Expectations
Kanban has 4 Classes of Service: Expedite, Fixed Date, Standard, and Intangible. Learn what each means, when to use them, and how they help teams manage expectations and prioritise work.
Free Daily Checklist for Agile Coaches
In this checklist of activities for an Agile Coach, we explore the daily / weekly / quarterly activities of an Agile Coach.
Can you answer these 4 critical questions?
For successful Agile delivery you require 4 critical principles; deliver the right thing, deliver it right, deliver it fast enough and deliver it safely.
Scaling your Agile teams? 3 warning signs to watch for
Three early warning signs that your Agile scaling effort is going wrong — and what to do before things get worse.
Agile Organisation Structure
How to structure your organisation to support Agile delivery — team topologies, reporting lines and the common traps to avoid.
How to handle defects in Kanban
Practical approaches to handling defects in a Kanban system — from triage and Classes of Service to preventing defect accumulation.
How to juggle planned and unplanned work
How Kanban teams can manage the constant tension between planned work and unplanned interruptions without sacrificing flow.
5 common team structures when you scale Kanban
Five team structures that organisations commonly adopt when scaling Kanban — with the trade-offs of each.
Implement Kanban in 3 easy steps
How to implement Kanban for your team in 3 easy steps. Go beyond what Kanban is and understand how to implement it effectively.
What is a Kanban Board?
A Kanban Board is a visual representation of your Kanban system. They are extremely useful for communicating status, progress and issues.
Scrum vs Kanban
The Kanban vs Scrum debate is a completely pointless argument. Each solves a set of problems. The problems they solve are complementary.
How to manage blockers & impediments
What is a blocker? Blockers (impediments in Scrum) are anything that stops or slows delivery. Learn what they are, examples, and how to manage them.
What is Kanban?
Kanban focuses on work visualisation to identify bottlenecks, limiting work in progress to reduce multitasking, and focuses on end-to-end delivery.
A Kanban System for Law Firms Legal Practices
How law firms and legal practices can apply Kanban to manage caseloads, improve turnaround times and deliver a better client experience.