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Writing & Breaking Down Tips for Features, Epics, Stories, Etc.

October 1, 2016
By Ken Adams

Agile

Quick tips on writing good Epics, Features, Stories and any other work item types and using the INVEST technique to break down work in to smaller pieces.

Agile, Agile: Sprint Planning, Scrum

Estimation Poker / Planning Poker Tips

September 1, 2016
By Ken Adams

Agile

Some quick tips on learning and using Estimation Poker to estimating. Also known as Planning Poker.

Agile, Agile: Estimating, Scrum

Retrospective How To

August 1, 2016
By Ken Adams

Agile

How to plan, schedule and execute a Retrospective. This how to is based on good practices learned over years of experience conducting hundreds of Retrospectives with Scrum teams, functional teams, engineers, managers, directors and executives.

Agile, Agile: Retrospectives, Scrum

Retrospective Template for a Wiki Page & Spreadsheet

July 30, 2016
By Ken Adams

Agile

Contains the Retrospective template in wiki page and spreadsheet formats described in Retrospective How To. You can use this to share the results of a Retrospective in a wiki or other shared space.

Agile, Agile: Retrospectives, Scrum

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services Training – 2016

June 30, 2016
By Ken Adams

Agile, Engineering, Jira/Azure DevOps/VSTS

Training courseware that I developed and conducted training in 2016 for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) - renamed to Azure DevOps.

Agile, Agile: Training, Azure DevOps/VSTS

Scrum Roles & Responsibilities

June 14, 2016
By Ken Adams

Agile

Describes the Scrum roles, responsibilities and commitment of anyone in those roles. Most of this content came from The Scrum Guide and I added some additional content based on lessons learned and good practices.