Measuring Scrum Sprints Progress
Martín Alaimo proposes to measure Scrum sprint progress with a continually updated ETC (estimate-to-complete) for each user story.
Knowledge
Articles, Blog Posts, Books and Quotes on Agile Project Management
How to do a Scrum Retrospective
Each Scrum Sprint should produce two results: 1) A product or service which is an increment of functionality closer to delivery and 2) a better, happier, more productive team. Peter Stevens explains that the retrospective is the primary opportunity for achieving the second result.
The Product Backlog Board
This post presents a structured and hierarchical product backlog board that considers non-functional requirements and display high priority items that are ready to code.
Create a Burndown Chart in Google Docs
A simple tutorial on how to create a Scrum Burndown Chart with Google Docs for free.
Adaptive Project Framework by Robert K. Wysocki
This book is a little bit different in the project management category. Its goal is to present an open framework and not a prescriptive model. Many project managers prefer to apply existing recipes for their project, but if you are ready to step out of your comfort zone, you will find in this books many ingredients to create your own recipe to manage software development projects.
Story Point Estimation
In this blog post, Mike Treadway explains the technique of using story points for story estimation during agile planning sessions.
Using Lean-Thinking to Help Scrum Teams
Thinking about Lean as a combination of science, management and learning provides Scrum practitioners to start with including Lean and Kanban practices into their Scrum practices. Explicit policies, managing work-in-progress, and creating visibility have a direct, measurable impact on a team’s velocity.