Planning Poker: Knowing When to Fold
I’ve been working in agile for almost twenty years now in one way or another (developer, manager, or coach) and there’s one …
What is an Agile Coach?
For many people, the idea of an Agile Coach is new and unfamiliar. It’s seems obvious that it’s someone who can coach …
User Story as Vertical Slice
When working with user stories, the phrase “vertical slice” comes up a lot, but a lot of Product Owners and especially developers …
Agile and Scrum Metrics
If you’re doing agile or Scrum (primarily), you’re probably using some metrics to see how your teams are doing. Are they performing? Are …
CURSE Your Way To Better Scrum Story Pointing
One of the main challenges teams face when adopting Scrum or other agile methodology is when they’re confronted with the concept of …
Scaled Agile (SAFe) Coaching and Training
It’s been a busy summer here at Artemis and we’re happy to announce that we’ll be offering SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework for …
Mile High Agile 2015 Presentation Slides
As I wrote previously, I presented last Friday at Mile High Agile 2015 on Transforming Teams to Kanban and Scrumban. I’m currently …
Artemis at Mile High Agile 2015
Bill DeVoe, founder and principal consultant here at Artemis, will be presenting a session at Mile High Agile 2015 this April. The session …
Agile: Stop Starting and Start Finishing
“Stop starting and start finishing.” You may have heard this phrase if you’ve been around Agile and Scrum practitioners for a while, …
Illusion of Control
One reason why methodologies like Waterfall have been popular is because of something I call the “Illusion of Control”. We think that, …