Agile What to include and what to omit from Scrum task cards. Scrum task cards minus the trinket hassle. What to include and what to omit, color coding that is functional, and the three ways boards can fail
Project Management Which project management system works for your app? How does project management really work for app development teams – choosing methodology, discovery, story points, and when to try not hiring a PM.
Agile A sprint backlog is well worth defining. Let us define a Sprint Backlog - what does it contain, how is it different from the Product Backlog, who owns it, and what fails make it useless?
Agile The Working Version of Backlog Refinement. Backlog refinement is a process that produces four things, plus who’s there, and what failure mode turns it into theatre.
Agile What the number rolled on velocity tracker means. Tracker velocity decoded without the agile theatre: how it works, why rolling-3 beats every other variant, and when the number is lying to you.
Product Development Formats That Survive Contact with Reality - Roadmap… The right visual strategy for a convincing roadmap: what to avoid, what works, and what constraints you should use.
Product Development What does a good product MVP look like and what doesn’t? Examples of Real Product MVPs Without Survivorship Bias – What Made the Famous Ones Work, What They Failed At, And What Structure Holds Together.
Product Development Basic principles of product management in one concise guide. A PM 101 without the certification syllabus: what PMs actually do every day, the four habits that compound, and what you shouldn’t bother learning.
Tooling What to actually want from a product development platform? No vendor pitch on these platform products? Here are the 4 capabilities that earn their keep, what to ignore, and when one platform beats a stack of…
Agile How to do Kanban planning in absence of scheduled sprints The various planning cadences in Kanban. The WIP (Work in Progress) rule that makes them possible. When to impose structure again upon the team.
Project Management How to Evaluate an IT Project Management Company? Selecting an IT project management company without the brochure: five things that make the quality, the red flags, and when to not hire one.
Agile The backlog refinement meeting agenda will stay. A backlog refinement meeting that pays for itself: working agenda, passed attendee list, time-box, and 3 signs it drifts to theatre.
Product Development The plain truth about a product marketing job. Learn more about the four jobs owned by Product Marketing Management as well as the difference from product management, brand marketing and when it’s not…
Tooling Trello and Wrike the fits of each kind of team. In an honest comparison of Trello and Wrike, we investigate the abilities of either tool, the friction at scale each has, and the team shapes they suit.
Tooling Which is better for your work? A Scrum vs Kanban board? To discover what each board enforces, where the config differences matter, and what hybrid setup most teams quietly run, let’s take a look at Scrum vs…
Tooling What Is A Project Tracking System And How To Roll One Out? A project tracking system that’s not a vendor pitch: what to look for, what rollout plan lives long, and what three things most teams mess up on day one.
Project Management Managing project issues the practice that stops drifting. Managing project issues without needless formalities. We take you through the four-stage loop that prevents issues worsening into risks, and the…
Project Management Making task and project management work in tandem! Task and project management aren't the same thing: what each is, the failure mode of conflating them, and the structure that lets both work in one tool.
Project Management Software project planning - version one page. An overview of software project planning including a 30-page template. The seven decisions every plan must make. The format that gets used. What to skip.
Tooling The stack that actually ships software engineering tools. Every team needs six software engineering tools, plus the ones that look essential but are not.
Tooling Creating a new sprint in Jira a practical how-to. Follow the Click-by-Click Instructions to Create New Sprint in Jira to Survive Configuration And The Three Setting Most Teams Get Wrong.
Project Management A useful definition of what a software project is. A software project is any project that is not a product, but has the following five things in addition to what makes it a project.
Agile The Meaningful Difference Between Tasks and Stories in Jira Understanding tasks vs stories in Jira, plus why it is more than just an issue type field difference, and what rule fixes most misunderstandings.
Agile Choosing between Sprint and Kanban comes down to two things. Sprint and Kanban are like night and day. Which one fits your team best? And what is this hybrid that most teams end up running?
Project Management First Draft of Software Development Project Management Plan If your plan isn’t changing every two weeks, your plan is wrong. Learn about the 7 sections a software project plan actually needs and the 6 it doesn’t.
