Book Titles

The lack of a regular and effective backlog refinement meeting is the root cause of many problems that keep a team from reliably delivering on their commitments.

…there is little value in refining rocks faster than they can be consumed.

…if the team is genuinely expected to be a product development team, we must work to minimize non-roadmapped rocks.

…people trump process. In all situations, there are rules, and then there are the rules for breaking the rules.

…the point of agile is to be responsive, not random. Randomness breaks flow.

It does not take much to imagine what may happen to teams or whole enterprises that fall behind the rate of change.

The agile business analysis fast learning cycle starts with a value hypothesis: If we do we will realize .

Analysts must always reside in the idea that they are asserting and testing hypotheses about the problem they are trying to understand.

Everyone should understand what it takes and not expect you to make the requirements magically appear.

Crushers in the backlog are visual representations of the important analysis work required to properly refine a rock.