Agile user guides
First sentence of a user guide: “If you read this document, we definitely have some usability problems in the product. Please report such problems directly to product owner at ….”
And how do user guides look in your company?
First sentence of a user guide: “If you read this document, we definitely have some usability problems in the product. Please report such problems directly to product owner at ….”
And how do user guides look in your company?
Guys from AccuRev created a nice list of Agile must know terms and expressions – Agile Glossary. I also decided to put it on my blog for my personal reference - http://agilemindstorm.com/agile-glossary/.
If you have any ideas or comments you can contact Kristine - kenglert@accurev.com
Effectiveness of retrospectives is still important topic for me because i don’t always see that people come out after retro with good action plan. As I was writing previously here retrospectives are very important for agile teams. They help us to look back and find ways for improvement…
Main struggle for a Scrum Master is to make people talk. We noticed that the approach described in my previous post will not necessarily lead to a discussion with good action plan (at least in our case). People sometimes complain that they have no ideas 🙂 IMHO, it happens because we are just sometimes lazy…
That’s why Scrum Masters in our teams started to look for better/additional approaches of facilitating retrospectives.
And we found it - Happiness Histogram. We selected following topics:
We use histograms in addition to previously described method. Workflow is the following:
Why do I think these two approaches work better together:
A: How is your Scrum adoption?
B: Oh, we are doing just great. It’s the 25th sprint already !…
A: Great! Are you satisfied with Scrum?
B: Well, not really … neither the users nor the operations department is happy. Maybe that is because we only release once a year?
A: Why don’t you release more often?
B: Neither the customer nor operations wants more frequent releases!