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Technical Debt is not a bug
Many authors consider technical debt and bugs identical and equate the reduction of bugs with the repayment of technical debt. Unfortunately, this is wrong. This article explains the characteristics of...
Technical Debt is not a bug
Many authors consider technical debt and bugs identical and equate the reduction of bugs with the repayment of technical debt. Unfortunately, this is wrong. This article explains the characteristics of...

Increasing Transparency With Technical Stories
Agile purists often believe that there are exactly two types of requirements in an agile organization - epics and user stories. In this article I explain why it makes sense...
Increasing Transparency With Technical Stories
Agile purists often believe that there are exactly two types of requirements in an agile organization - epics and user stories. In this article I explain why it makes sense...

Why Story Points are Superior to Effort Estimat...
Story points are superior to effort estimations. Nevertheless, classic effort estimations are still part of day-to-day business in many companies. In agile companies, they have been replaced by complexity estimates...
Why Story Points are Superior to Effort Estimat...
Story points are superior to effort estimations. Nevertheless, classic effort estimations are still part of day-to-day business in many companies. In agile companies, they have been replaced by complexity estimates...

The Fibonacci Sequence and the Cone of Uncertainty
The Fibonacci sequence and the Cone of Uncertainty are two concepts which repeatedly appear in agile development and aim to the very heart of agile estimation techniques. This article is...
The Fibonacci Sequence and the Cone of Uncertainty
The Fibonacci sequence and the Cone of Uncertainty are two concepts which repeatedly appear in agile development and aim to the very heart of agile estimation techniques. This article is...

A Beginners Guide to Sprint Retrospectives
Often newly certified Scrum Masters or beginners in the field of Scrum wonder how a retrospective is actually conducted. This article gives a short introduction to the execution of Scrum...
A Beginners Guide to Sprint Retrospectives
Often newly certified Scrum Masters or beginners in the field of Scrum wonder how a retrospective is actually conducted. This article gives a short introduction to the execution of Scrum...