There are two big things you can do to ensure success with remote employees. One is to have a well-defined role for them with clearly defined responsibilities, tasks, and KPIs that their success will be measured by. The other is to use clearly documented processes… Read More »Systems And Documentation For Remote Employee Success
Managing employees is not a simple thing and if you are talking about managing remote employees, some additional nuances can make it tricky. But get those things right and adding one remote worker or a whole team of them will be one of the best… Read More »31 Tips for Managing Remote Employees
When reviewing the many articles and information out there about writing good acceptance criteria, I wanted to provide more of a quick reference, or short checklist of things, that you can quickly use to scan your acceptance criteria. I hope this is practical and useful.… Read More »5 Signs of Good Acceptance Criteria
If you google the main aspects that go into story pointing, you’ll quickly see your story points should primarily reflect your team’s agreement on the risks, complexity, and repetition involved with the proposed work. There’s a lot out there that you can read about in… Read More »7 Questions to Ask During Backlog Grooming
Put simply, if QA is not part of story pointing, your “definition of done” is broken. Is QA a regular in your story pointing meetings? I sure hope so. If they aren’t, you probably are: optimizing for development instead of delivery carrying over a lot… Read More »Why Should QA Be Part of Story Pointing?