Stop Using the Value Area Field
Open a PBI work item form in the Scrum process and you'll find a field called Value Area with two options: Business and Architectural. It looks helpful. It isn't. I'd leave it alone.
The problem …
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Committed vs. Forecasted: Scrum Guide Drift in Azure Boards
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 …
Read more →Customizing a Professional Scrum Process
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 …
Read more →Choosing a Process: Basic, Agile, Scrum, or CMMI
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 …
Read more →Azure DevOps + Mural = Awesome Visualizations
I'm a fan of Mural and a super fan of Azure DevOps. Turns out they work pretty well together. Using Mural as a front-end to Azure DevOps offers an alternative approach to planning, visualizing, and …
Read more →Practicing Hypothesis-Driven Development in Azure DevOps
I like to think of Scrum Product Owners as mini-CEOs of their product. As such, they should be empowered to drive value in any direction that they desire. This often requires a Product Owner to …
Read more →Facilitating a Nexus Sprint Review
Over the years, I’ve been asked multiple times what a Nexus Sprint Review might look like. I’ve not been satisfied with the guidance I’ve found online regarding Nexus Sprint Review, …
Read more →I'm feeling encouraged. It seems that more and more teams, whether they are using automated or manual tests, are using Azure Test Plans to create and track their acceptance testing efforts. I was …
Read more →Creating a Product Backlog Treemap
Product Backlogs are boring. Not only are they one dimensional, but they are often unordered. This is to say nothing of their potential lack of information as well. (User) story maps are way more …
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