Visualising your Product Backlog

Have you heard that a product backlog is a prioritised list of features/epics/stories (requirements), bugs and technical debt/work? I suppose that's OK, but if you want to make it really effective then it should be visual. Let's take a look at how to do that.

Story Sizing

We struggled with planning poker sessions for months, until we discovered a technique called Story Sizing. Now it's easy, and fun!

Progressive Story Splitting

Good stories are key to the success of software development for the vast majority of agile teams. Getting them right is not easy. We've found a way that works, and it's pretty simple!

A piece of paper that'll improve your team

Today we tried using a dialogue sheet in our retrospective for the first time. In my experience, when you try something new it invariably means you won't get it right. This was different.