Agile Auckland Monthly Round Up New Zealand’s premier Agile Round Up. The latest in tips, tricks, and techniques from Agile Auckland. Happy December Agile Aucklanders! In our postliminary edition for 2020 we have packed this round-up with great articles written by our very talented Agile Auckland community. Highlights include a walk through on some of the changes in the new 2020 Scrum Guide, we take a look at Emotional Culture Decks…

How communities of practice can enhance your agile skills and mindset with other like-minded professionals. What is Communities of Practice? Communities of Practices (COP) is an organized group of professionals that meet at regular intervals to share a common interest in a specific technical domain or business profession. They share their common bond to improve each others skills, interest and profession as a whole.

Using Retrospectives to reflect and adapt — In this blog article, we explore the power of reflection for teams conducting Retrospectives and how they use their findings to improve internal processes. Reflection is a powerful action. …

Becoming agile starts with you This article highlights what having an agile mindset actually means and how having this superpower makes you a better and more empowered collaborator, teammate, and person. What is an agile mindset? It is an attitude that supports the agile working environment through core values, these include: Respect: Working with your team as a collective; united…

How Agile Teams can use Product Roadmaps to help organise their backlogs In this article, I will walk you through what a Product Roadmap is, describe how the product roadmap and product backlog are uniquely different, but when worked on together, they complement each other, to help deliver value to stakeholders. What is a Product Roadmap? A product roadmap is a single source of truth which maps…

How Themes can drive meaningful outcomes when Agile planning As I have discussed in a previous blog about how Progressive Elaboration can effectively drive a successful requirement breakdown for Agile planning, see the Relationship between Features, Epics, User Stories and Sub-Tasks for more information. The Relationship Between Epics, Features, User Stories & Subtasks Exploring the guiding principle of Progressive Elaborationmedium.com

Exploring the guiding principle of Progressive Elaboration This article explores an agile method called Progressive Elaboration. In Agile, Progressive Elaboration focuses on continuously improving and detailing the agile plan as more details arise. Meaning, the estimates will become more accurate, once more information is known. This is part of the ‘Just in Time planning’ (JIP) principle. What is Progression Elaboration?

How using the Continual Backlog Refinement Method can help optimize your team’s agility This article explores the wonders of Continual Backlog Refinement. A simple method that will help your scrum team focus on what is important — refinement of the backlog, and how it could break the same-old routine that teams can get tired of doing. Continual Refinement Overview As we all know, it is the…