Tag: Azure Boards

Sep 30, 2016 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

According to Microsoft’s official definition, Team Rooms, like chat rooms, “provide teams with a space to discuss work in progress, ask questions, share status, and clarify issues that …

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Ordering the Product Backlog by ROI

Aug 15, 2016 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The Scrum Guide says that the Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog and that Product Backlog management includes ordering items in the Product Backlog …

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Stakeholder Traceroute

Jun 13, 2016 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m always amazed at how difficult and even impossible it can be for stakeholders to get their ideas into some product backlogs. I’ve started asking teams to run a stakeholder traceroute. …

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Microsoft, please give us a Scrum process template

Nov 4, 2015 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In 2014, the Scrum Guide was moved off of Scrum.org and posted to ScrumGuides.org. At the same time, all of the major Scrum organizations in the world acknowledged this as the official definition of …

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Visual Studio Live! in Austin

Jun 3, 2015 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Update: Added additional links for my same talks at VSLive! in San Francisco today (17 June, 2015) Thank you to those who attended my two talks today. I enjoyed our conversation about Technical Debt …

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Use Excel to Create Repetitive Work Items

Feb 24, 2015 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Teams often ask me for any shortcuts to periodically creating the same work items, such as for each sprint or release. In other words, they want to create the same Product Backlog Item or Task (but …

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Promoting a PBI to a Feature (Epic)

Jan 29, 2015 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

For Scrum Teams using TFS 2013 to create and manage their Product Backlog, they may want to take advantage of the new Agile Portfolio. This “higher level” backlog allows a team or …

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Team members in the Readers group can create work items!

Nov 17, 2014 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Watch out. This could happen to you and your team. Let’s assume you have a single team project with three teams (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato) … Next, let’s assume you have Jake, a …

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Using the Kanban Board to Implement a Definition of Ready

Nov 14, 2014 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

More and more teams are adopting a Definition of Ready (also known as DoR or Readiness Criteria) to avoid starting work on PBIs that are ill-defined, such as those that do not have clearly defined …

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