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Committed vs. Forecasted: Scrum Guide Drift in Azure Boards

Apr 9, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Open a PBI in the Scrum process, walk its workflow states, and you'll hit one that hasn't aged well: Committed. It's a small word on a drop-down, and it carries a decade of disagreement. One of the …

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No Human, No Copyright: The Appeals Court Confirms It

Mar 21, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

A while back I argued that if an AI writes your code, probably nobody owns it, and that the question was still working its way through the courts. One of those courts has now answered. On March 18, …

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Stakeholder Access Is Free Transparency

Mar 20, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's a feature teams routinely leave on the table: Stakeholder access. It's free, it's unlimited, and it gives the people around your Scrum Team a window into the work. If you care about …

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Turn Acceptance Criteria Into Test Cases by Paste

Mar 3, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

You've written good acceptance criteria for a PBI. Now you want one Test Case work item per criterion so the Developers can swarm, test, and deliver in a more asynchronous way. Typing each one by hand …

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Customizing a Professional Scrum Process

Feb 17, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The Scrum process in Azure DevOps is the closest fit to the Scrum Guide of any system process, but it isn't a perfect fit. Over the past decade the Scrum Guide evolved while the process largely stood …

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The Pre-Game Checklist: Setting Up an Org and Project Right

Jan 31, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In rugby, a lot happens before kickoff. Fields get selected, dates get negotiated, teams get formed, and player positions get designated. Scrum development efforts have a pre-game too. It's everything …

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Who Owns the Code Your AI Just Wrote?

Jan 14, 2025 • 5 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's an uncomfortable question for every team leaning on AI to ship faster: if an AI wrote your code, who owns it? Under current U.S. law the honest answer is probably nobody, and that should bother …

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Azure Test Plans Is Your Sprint Plan, Not Just a Test Tool

Jan 13, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Most teams I meet think Azure Test Plans is simply about creating and running tests. That's how Microsoft promotes the product and how it tends to get demoed. It can certainly do those things. But …

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Choosing a Process: Basic, Agile, Scrum, or CMMI

Dec 30, 2024 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Every Azure DevOps project starts with a decision that most teams make in about four seconds and then live with for years. When you create a new project, you have to pick a process. That process …

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