Requirement Specification vs User Stories
This video explores what makes good requirements and how agile user stories help to improve the quality of requirements, whatever the nature of our software development.
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Scandinavian Agile, Helsinki, Finland, March 27-28 2025
The Scandinavian Agile Conference is an event organized by Agile Finland and focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management. It takes place in Helsinki and discusses Agile organizations, state of the art in programming practices and Agile coaching.
Agile Trends, Sao Paolo, Brazil, April 8-11 2025
Agile Trends is a conference focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management that takes place in Sao Paolo in Brazil. All the talks are in Portuguese.
SoCraTes Day Switzerland, Ilanz, Switzerland, January 30 – February 2 2025
SoCraTes Day Switzerland is the Swiss stage of the International Software Craftsmanship Gathering, a series of events for open-minded software developers who want to improve their craft and the software industry as a whole. This conferences aims at providing an ideal setting for speaking to and coding with other talented and engaged Agile software developers
CodeFreeze, Kiilopää, Finland, January 11-18 2025
CodeFreeze is an unconference taking place in Finland that defines itself as a “time and place for software craftspeople to meet”. It is part of the international group of SoCraTes conferences that are focused on software craftsmanship.
Velocity is a Lagging Indicator
Velocity is one a key metrics used by Scrum teams to measure the rate at which an Agile team delivers value to the customer. In his book “Escape Velocity – Better Metrics for Agile Teams”, Doc Norton explains why velocity is not the ideal metric for Scrum teams.
Open Source Planning Poker Tools
The first thing to say is that the term “Planning Poker®” is a registered trademark of Mountain Goat Software, the Mike Cohn company. This is why this agile planning practice could be sometimes names differently: scrum poker, agile poker, etc. This article presents a list of free and open source planning poker tools and plugins that are also directly available as online tools.