Scrum Sprint Planning Meeting
Posted by admin under Scrum Basics Sprint Planning Meeting In Scrum, every iteration begins with the sprint planning meeting. At this meeting, the Product Owner and the team negotiate which stories a team will tackle that sprint. Time-boxed to four hours, this meeting is a conversation between the Product Owner and the team.
Tissue Flowers
A couple of months ago, Jenny - the very lovely editor of PaperCraft Inspirations - asked me to work up a feature on different ways to use tissue paper. You can see the results in the September issue (on sale right about now), and alongside ruffles, twists, layers, buttons and twirly skirts, there's a miniature version of an old tissue-paper favourite. I made these flowers for Halloween a couple of years ago, and although the large scale can look fantastic on card projects, it doesn't leave room for very much else. By scaling it down, you create a much more versatile embellishment and your tissue supplies will stretch a little further, too.
How to Create Products that Customers Hate
5 Flares Filament.io 5 Flares × The following list is a tongue-in-cheek collection of common mistakes in applying Scrum. They all influence product success negatively. Combined they are a recipe for certain failure.
Why Pinterest Is So Addictive
I would have written this article sooner, but I was busy on Pinterest. If you are still among the uninitiated, the social platform for collecting, sharing, and commenting on of photos of personal passions is uniquely engaging, absorbing, and addictive. The human instinct to collect things--be it baseball cards, miniature spoons, or teacups--is as old as stuff itself. But it took Pinterest to perfect this process online.
Scrum Effort Estimation and Story Points
Posted by admin under Scrum Basics In waterfall, managers determine a team member’s workload capacity in terms of time. That is, managers estimate how long they anticipate certain tasks will take and then assign work based on that team member’s total available time.
Bean: An OS X Word Processor (Build 20100115144158)
Download Bean for High Sierra or Mojave Version 3.2.13 (released 3 May 2019) for macOS High Sierra (10.13) or macOS Mojave (10.14) • Not compatible with earlier macOS versions • Includes several bug fixes. Download Bean for Sierra
How Companies Track People Without Becoming Big Brother
Andre Lavoie is the CEO of ClearCompany, the first talent alignment platform that bridges the gap between talent management and business strategy by contextualizing employees’ work around a company’s vision and goals. Privacy is a huge buzzword in today’s digitally-connected world. Companies are trying to strike a balance between transparent organizational structures that encourage collaboration and innovation, and respecting the privacy and boundaries of workers. These companies are walking a tightrope, and they’re often falling down. What happens is usually far from organizational transparency and closer to micromanagement. Instead of having sight lines into the workflow of your team, companies become Big Brother and put tight structures in place with the hope of cracking down on time-wasters and improving productivity.
Effort vs. Time
Effort vs. Time Posted on 16, Nov 2011
Asurion Online Standards Resource
Note: These Design and Layout Standards are not intended to serve as online styleguides. Rather, they are things that a designer needs to keep in mind in order to minimize the impact of design decisions on the page’s performance. The desktop break-point of a webpage design should be optimized for a resolution of 1024 X 768, figuring for a left and right margin, which translates to 960px for content +/- 20px. For a responsive design, there may not be a maximum limitation on width, but the entire width of the page should be visible within 1024 pixels.
About Usability - Website Design
A website is a window into how your organization is run. Users assume that if you cut corners on your website, you also cut corners with your products and services. When users feel smart and sophisticated on your website, they tend to stick around. When users feel stupid, their blood pressure goes up, their heart rate increases, and they get a little hot under the collar. This visceral negative reaction begins to harm trust and brand perception almost immediately.
BRD vs. Functional Software Requirements
We often get the question asking “what is the difference between business requirements and functional requirements?” In prior posts I have discussed that these distinctions are actually artificial and are artifacts of an organization structure that requires people in “the business” to produce a “business requirements document (BRD)” vs. some other group that will produce a “system requirements specification (SRS)”. The difference ultimately is just the level of detail.
User Stories and User Story Examples by Mike Cohn
User stories are short, simple descriptions of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability, usually a user or customer of the system. They typically follow a simple template: As a <type of user>, I want <some goal> so that <some reason>. User stories are often written on index cards or sticky notes, stored in a shoe box, and arranged on walls or tables to facilitate planning and discussion. As such, they strongly shift the focus from writing about features to discussing them.
Scrum Alliance -Perfect PlanningBest Practices for Successful Sprint Planning
A successful sprint starts with the planning session. Taking the time to plan allows the team to review the work about to be undertaken, estimate the effort required to complete that work, and then commit to a prioritized list of stories and tasks that are within the team’s calculated capacity. This light set of procedures is well documented in Scrum and Agile literature [1],[2], but included here are some observable traits and best practices that have been found in well-formed, hyper-productive agile teams.
Scrum Meeting Schedule - Two-Week Sprint
So, you’ve heard about Agile and Scrum, your company is sold into the benefits, you’ve had your Scrum Master training, you’re good to go… and now you need to set up all of the meetings! This post will give you a simple overview of the Scrum Meetings and some suggestions for how you might like to schedule/run them. I’ll base this post on a two-week sprint as this seems to be the most common within the Digital Publishing industry.
