Mike Cohn's Blog – Succeeding With Agile

• Watch Now: How to Stop People Problems from Hurting Your Estimates April 13, 2021
  This is the final video in a short training series about story points. Available for a limited time only.
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• Watch Now: What to Do When Teams and Stakeholders Want Perfect Estimates April 8, 2021
  Now available: The second video in a series to help you coach your team on story points
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• Watch Now: Training on Story Points for a Limited Time April 6, 2021
  More than 5,900 agile professionals took this training! I’m making it available for free until April 21.
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• Should a Team Assign Work During Sprint Planning? March 30, 2021
  Some teams assign all tasks upfront. Others don’t. Here’s what works best.
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• Top 5 changes in the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide March 16, 2021
  Recently the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide was released. What changes were made that you need to be aware of in order to keep up to date with Scrum?
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• Three Strategies for Fitting Refactoring into Your Sprints March 2, 2021
  It can be challenging to find time for refactoring. These approaches will help.
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• My Favorite Resource for Agile Advice, Support, and Answers February 17, 2021
  If I could make only one recommendation for an agile resource to have in 2021, this would be it…
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• The Three Types of Requirements on Any Project February 2, 2021
  In discussing requirements on any project, it’s important to realize there are really three different types of requirements. First are the known requirements. These are the requirements users tell us about. Analysts have honed good techniques over the years for gathering a project’s known requirements: interviews, story-writing workshops, open-ended questions, and more. But we’re fallible. […]
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• A New Appointment Means New Agile Training Options January 26, 2021
  This time last year, I’d just finished teaching one of my last in-person classes for the year. Of course, at the time I didn’t know it would be one of my last. Back then I couldn’t have predicted the changes we’d see in 2020 or the changes we’d make at Mountain Goat Software. I’ve been […]
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• My Most Popular Blog Posts from 2020 January 19, 2021
  I wrote 26 blog posts during 2020. In case you missed some of them, here are the most popular.
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