At the beginning of a Sprint, the Product Owner presents a refined and ordered Product Backlog to the Developers. A Sprint Goal is crafted and the Developers select an achievable set of the items to …
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According to the Scrum Guide, the Sprint Goal is an objective set for the Sprint that can be met through the implementation of Product Backlog. It provides guidance to the Development Team on why it …
Read more →Which tests are my regression tests?
Although we can’t help you decide which tests should be part of your regression suite, we can help you easily identify them by using tags.
Over the years, we’ve seen teams using Team …
Read more →Create a Professional Scrum process
Visual Studio Team Services’ customization capabilities are to a point now where I can write this blog post … as a rebuttal to any earlier post of my own. As you may know, the Scrum …
Read more →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 …
Read more →Ordering the Product Backlog by ROI
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 …
Read more →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. …
Read more →Microsoft, please give us a Scrum process template
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 …
Read more →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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