Breakthrough ideas come from teams, not individuals. Discover why collaboration, shared purpose, and team creativity are essential to innovation today.

Is your team hesitant to estimate? Here's the secret: we're not as bad (or as good!) at estimates as we think. Learn why.

Pressure for guarantees can ruin agile plans. Learn how to build stakeholder trust with accurate estimates.

Ever wonder why your projects always seem to be late? The reason might surprise you.

Agile teams often struggle to estimate product backlog items. Here are 7 ways to make solid improvements.

Story points are perhaps the most misunderstood topic in agile. Story points are not based on just one factor--such as complexity, as is often mistakenly claimed. Instead, story points are based on a…

Story points are about time, specifically effort. But that does not mean you should say, “One story point = eight hours.” Find out why.

If you’ve estimated with Planning Poker, you may very well have used cards with either the FIbonacci sequence, or a modified Fibonacci sequence.

Ever wonder why your projects always seem to be late? The reason might surprise you.

This post explains how to use a Definition of Ready successfully and avoid it becoming a first step back toward a waterfall process.

The standard “As a...I...so that…” user story template is a way of expressing product backlog items. Learn what the three-part user story format is, more about the questions it…

Deadlines are often missed because teams fail to consider emergent requirements. Learn about the 3 types of requirements your agile team should be gathering.

Story points are perhaps the most misunderstood topic in agile. Story points are not based on just one factor--such as complexity, as is often mistakenly claimed. Instead, story points are based on a…

I've been getting more and more emails lately from people confused about the difference between

I'd like to clarify the relationship between two important concepts: a team's Definition of Done and the Conditions of Satisfaction for a user story. Let's start by reviewing each of these…

Ever wondered what product owners do? Have you scratched your head, wondering when they do it all, and why? If so, this blog is for you.

Discover what pirates have to teach us about why the ScrumMaster and product owner require different skills, and different people.

With many competing pulls on their time, product owners can be hard to catch during a sprint. Learn how to help harried product owners seize opportunities to inspect and adapt outside the…

Is product owner the right role for you? Discover 4 skills product owners need, 5 popular paths to product owner, and 4 questions to ask yourself when considering the job.

Learn what good product owners do to avoid 7 common product owner mistakes.

Learn six ways effective product owners ensure their teams’ success.

When writing user stories, how should agile teams handle non-functional requirements—desired product attributes or characteristics? Get the answers you need in this blog post from Mike Cohn.

It isn’t just people who benefit when teams work at a sustainable pace. Overall velocity is higher and defect counts are lower. Find out why.

Planning an exact time to do something within a sprint helps make sure you get the important stuff done. 

Sprint planning may look like it’s about tasks and estimates but those are not the goal.

There are plenty of mistakes a team can make when splitting user stories. Here are five of the most common.

Story maps help to create a shared understanding of the product, visualize user needs, and elicit user story ideas. Discover how to create your own.

Splitting user stories is hard. Here are the only five techniques you need to be able to slice any user story into small, manageable chunks of work.

Is your team a bit confused about user stories? Get answers to common questions about acceptance criteria, so-that clauses, and user stories vs requirements.

The standard “As a...I...so that…” user story template is a way of expressing product backlog items. Learn what the three-part user story format is, more about the questions it…

What you need to know to conduct a story-writing workshop with your team.

When writing user stories, how should agile teams handle non-functional requirements—desired product attributes or characteristics? Get the answers you need in this blog post from Mike Cohn.