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Mike Cohn's Blog – Succeeding With Agile
- Agile Decision Making: Good Decisions & Agile Plans April 2, 2024Find out how good agile plans enable good decisions, not perfect results.
- Boost Creativity by Embracing Scrum Framework Constraints March 26, 2024Before you break the rules of Scrum, consider how Scrum’s constraints enhance creativity and boost innovation.
- 7 Ways to Get the Best Estimates of Story Size March 12, 2024Agile teams often struggle to estimate product backlog items. Here are 7 ways to make solid improvements.
- GoatBot Answers 5 Questions about Retrospectives February 27, 2024We queried our agile AI tool, GoatBot, with 5 FAQs about retrospectives. See what GoatBot, trained by the work of Mike Cohn, had to say.
- Unfinished Work Every Sprint? 3 Ways to Break the Habit February 13, 2024Sometimes, ambitious agile teams fail to deliver everything in a sprint. That's normal. But it shouldn’t become a habit. Learn how teams fall into the trap of unfinished work and what you can do to help.
- How to Overcome Resistance to Change January 30, 2024Moving to a Scrum or an agile way of working is beneficial but can be disruptive. Discover what you can do to help people to embrace new ideas, rather than resist and fear them.
- Do Agile Teams Include Semi-Finished Work in Velocity? January 16, 2024Should teams receive partial credit on nearly finished stories when calculating their sprint velocity? Find out in this video blog from Mike Cohn.
- The Just Right Size for Agile Teams January 2, 2024Teams get things done far more quickly than one person could. But as team size grows, so does overhead. So what is the optimal team size for agile projects? It's much smaller than you might think.
- How Much Can You Really Tinker with Scrum? December 12, 2023Does Scrum work if you don’t have a Scrum Master? What about sprints? Estimates? And so on? Discover what you can, and cannot, live without in Scrum.
- How to Engage & Help Busy Product Owners November 28, 2023With many competing pulls on their time, product owners can be hard to catch during a sprint. Learn how to help harried product owners seize opportunities to inspect and adapt outside the sprint review.