When a software project is thought to be behind schedule, a common assumption is that adding more people to the team(s) will yield the desired improvement in terms of bringing in the project completion date. What occurs immediately after adding new people is that the completion of work tends to be slower for a period...Read More

Agile teams periodically revisit their list of work to be done, which in Scrum they refer to as their Product Backlog. Many teams use the term Backlog Refinement to describe their process for making Product Backlog Items ready for team members to work on. For instance, many Scrum teams have a Backlog Refinement conversation at...Read More