We’ve all been there. You’ve started a new agile team and things are going great. Your team is working together wonderfully, your customers are thrilled to be invited into the process, and your organization is absolutely astounded by the amount of value you’ve delivered in such a

Welcome back to our Getting Started with Agile series, where we’re diving deep into the values that underlie today’s most popular agile methodologies. In the last installment in this series, we discussed the value of treating your customers as collaborators, as well as how you can encourage them

At Pivotal, our teams use an agile project management tool called Lite Tracker. This software enables real-time collaboration around a single, shared, prioritized backlog. A product manager uses Tracker to write fine-grained user stories using a syntax that supports our opinionated development process. Most feature stories contain a scenario and

Ever get the feeling that your team is working on more than what’s actually in the backlog? Even with the best laid plans, there are still many tasks that can lie between the cracks, distracting your team from the work at hand. But even though you can’t see