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Increase Agility Blog

The Increase Agility Blog is your gateway to the latest thoughts on Agile development from our creative team. 

Up Your Planning Game With A Planning Canvas

December 8, 2014 Alan Bustamante

One Version Of Our Planning Canvas

See how a planning canvas can improve results for planning events.

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In Thought Leadership, Training Tags Planning, Workshop, Work Visualization
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The User Story Map: One Kick Ass Tool for User Story Prioritization

May 22, 2014 Alan Bustamante

Having a tough time prioritizing your user stories?  Try a user story map.

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In Thought Leadership Tags User Stories, Prioritization
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Seven Questions to Ask Yourself When Determining If Backlog Items Should be Broken Down Into Tasks

April 18, 2014 Alan Bustamante

Wondering if your Scrum team should break backlog items into tasks?  Here are seven questions to ask yourself when deciding what to do.

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In Thought Leadership Tags Tasks, Sprint Backlog, Planning
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Defining Ready, An Essential Practice for Increasing Your Agile Team’s Planning Productivity

March 18, 2014 Alan Bustamante

Need to increase the productivity of your Agile team's planning sessions? Implementing a Defintion of Ready can kill unproductive discussions and vague backlog items BEFORE the team gets to planning.

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In Thought Leadership Tags Scrum, Planning, Definition of Ready
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Tool Review: Using planningpoker.com to create a collaborative planning environment for distributed teams

January 15, 2014 Alan Bustamante

Learn how planningpoker.com can enhance collaboration and engagement among distributed team members.

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In Reviews, Thought Leadership Tags Planning, Distributed Teams, Tools
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