The Agile Retrospectives Prime Directive
Gathering your team to discuss how the past work cycle went is excellent, but it can easily turn into a blaming game, draining away any benefits »
5 Great Tools for Remote Collaboration
By Chatty Garrate. Follow her on Twitter. More and more people nowadays are looking for remote working opportunities. Not only does it promote work-life balance, but »
In Agile as in life, time is precious
In software development, time is a central concept, and delivering value as early as possible is a primary driver for the industry. Teams build products to »
The Business Value of an Agile Retrospective
Are you aware of how much value your work adds up? Individuals and teams need to have a concrete idea of their impact in any business »
Software Estimations Tend to Fail But That's Fine
Estimating the amount of effort or time a task will take always seems inaccurate, so why do it anyway? Meeting with the team to do estimates »
Post-Mortems vs. Agile Retrospectives
As George Santayana once said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. That is why in product and project management, there exist »
Walking the Board Alongside Stand-Bot
Daily stand-ups are the heartbeat of Scrum and have also made their way into several Kanban-practicing teams. But, as popular as dailies are, some people just »
Agile Retrospectives for Beginners
With the growing trend of agile frameworks adoption among companies, one topic that draws more attention from beginners is how to properly conduct an Agile Retrospective. »
Do's & Dont's for Your Agile Retrospective Sessions
The SoftwareDevTools team considers Retrospectives so valuable that not only do we run them frequently, we have also developed a tool that makes it really easy »
Weekly Scrums can Boost Productivity While Saving Time
According to Google data, the query 'I hate daily scrums' gets several monthly searches. Even if few people look for that, you can sense a similar »