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View Article  Use Structured User Stories for Agile Benefit
Using structured user stories in the form AS A, I WANT TO and SO THAT offers a greater agile benefit to the data that represents the requirements without adding in too much additional data to supply the structure - it gets the balance just right on ceremony.   more »
View Article  Card Conversation Confirmation - Agile Tool
This weekend I've released the first beta version of my new agile tool at CardConversationConfirmation.com - and its completely FREE to use.   more »
View Article  Planning poker for senior management
The customer usually wants to see a plan as early as possible - it’s a reasonable request and its perfectly ok to do this providing the communication of the plan and its risks is carefully articulated and the pros and cons of the method are clearly understood by all. The key to mitigating the cons coming into play is to have a poker game with the senior management from both the customer and supplier.   more »
View Article  Standard Deviation Buffers for better schedule and estimate management.
Clients who want to be confident about a schedule to deliver an agreed set of functionality on time and within budget will benefit from the development team implementing standard deviation buffers...   more »
View Article  Planning Poker for distributed teams
PlanningPoker.com is a fantastic way to play planning poker with distributed teams...   more »
View Article  Make time for Planning Poker
Planning Poker requires the teams full attention, dedication, preparation and most of all time...   more »
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