Category Archives: Sprint Planning & Tracking
Happy Developers = Productivity
Agile developers like to focus on what’s most important to them, and that’s coding. You’ll almost always get pushback when asking the agile development team to stop doing what they like so they can switch to another application to provide updates. I have a viable solution to make both sides happy. Continue reading
Drag-and-Drop Epic Ranking Helps Agile Planning
In larger agile planning efforts, it can be quite helpful to keep your epics well-organized and prioritized. Simple drag-and-drop epic ranking and management is certainly an integral part of agile planning. Continue reading
Using Templates to Help with Sprint Planning
Templates aren’t just for Product Owners. Teams can also copy tasks and tests from templates during sprint planning to cut down on missing tasks and manual entry. It’s sort of a checklist to make sure you’ve addressed the key work necessary, but can still add unique tasks when appropriate. Continue reading
5 Handy Uses for Issues in VersionOne
VersionOne provides teams a central place to track issues at a Project and Team level. This allows teams, no matter how distributed, to collaborate closely on those things that are keeping the project from moving forward. This blog is all about five clever and handy ways that any team could use issues. Continue reading
Taking your Retrospectives from mediocre to magnificent
In the 2nd part of this Retrospectives series, we take a look at VersionOne’s ability to capture important information from one of the most important events of Agile. Continue reading
Sprint Scheduling in VersionOne
One of the key planning considerations for any agile development project is the Sprint Schedule. The length and timing of Sprints is key to determining many of the other planning factors including estimating and velocity. Within VersionOne, you can define … Continue reading
Taskboard Love
The Spring Release will be out in a few weeks. The new Taskboard is looking good!
My StoryBoard Life
As a tester, I live on the Storyboard. It’s my go-to page in VersionOne. I use it to keep up with team progress when I’m not in the team room, and I also use it to organize my own work. … Continue reading
Committing to the right amount
How does your team determine the right amount of work in the sprint? Is that approach working in your given situation? In this video post, I explore the various ways that a team can reflect on their sprint plan before … Continue reading
Teams Without Fuss
“Teams” Feature Discussion, Take 1… (Fade in to training session, where a group of happy new VersionOne users are learning more about what their system can do for them.) New customer: “Where do we define the people on the team?” … Continue reading