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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? Taking an Economic View of Decision Making. Risks Actions in the Backlog.

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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

Scrum.org

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. The initial practice was for developers to work no more than 40 hours a week.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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30 Simpler Asana Alternatives For Creative Teams

Teamweek

And, while Asana is a great tool for micro-managing work, more creative teams are looking for Asana alternatives that allow better freedom at work. In this article, you’ll learn about 30 alternatives to Asana that are easy to use and help creative teams collaborate better. 3 Project Management Features That Matter To Creative Teams.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This is simply good process development and management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. We assess physical percent complete at close business every single day, with the update of the TO DO field in Rally at the Task level.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This is simply good process development and business management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?