Many Agile teams have an ordered list of items to be worked on, where the most important items are at the top of the list, and the least important items are at the bottom of the list. It is a common practice for the items at or near the top of the list to be...Read More

Some teams employ a method that helps them rapidly categorize a group of concepts or ideas based on shared attributes. The affinity grouping technique is particularly helpful in a brainstorming or other ideation context, where individual members of a team first write down concepts or ideas, on Post-it Notes or their digital equivalents. The members...Read More

Some teams use a technique that enables rapid comparison of a potentially large set of work items with little discussion about each individual item, by grouping the work items based on their relative size. For collocated teams, a common approach to affinity estimation is to write a brief description of each work item on index...Read More