Christina Anderson is an avid Agile Enthusiast & AgileDad Guest Blogger

One of the most challenging parts about being a Product Owner is working with stakeholders. Why? Because in a perfect world stakeholders would always have a strong technological background and under...

Identify the top three issues that still may not have been addressed to date and plan a course of action to get these taken care of. While this list is comprehensive, no single list could include everything one organization needs to do in order to see all facets of Agi...

Identify ways to measure team and group success. Take time to identify internal and external service level agreements and determine what metrics of success will be celebrated as a team. Celebration of completed sprints and projects should be acceptable and normal. I re...

Secure the appropriate Agile Tooling solution. So many companies select the tool first and try to align their Agile practices around the tool that they have selected. This forces things on the organization that may not be inline with their culture, etc. We need to be c...

Enhanced Testing Practices: Every group should be working towards some form of Test Driven Design & Development. In my world there is a test in place to validate before a line of code is ever written. This should be standard practice for Agile teams. Testing should nev...

Enhance Programming Practices, what on Earth does that even mean? Well, it starts with a very basic principle, unit testing. When code is written, this is the way that the development team insures that the code is intact and meets a specific set of coding and documenta...

Take time to measure the end consumer satisfaction: In addition to the ever so critical acceptance criteria, we need to also note some form of measure for end consumer satisfaction. This information could be gathered with something as simple as frequent demonstrations...

This step was the one that concerned me the most to publish. It just feels so strange to point this out as a step in the process, but after much consideration, I have decided that it is truly needed. One problem that many teams in larger enterprise organizations face i...

Step Five involves reclaiming the time that has been taken away from agile teams in the form of meetings. One of the largest collective complaints I hear from teams who attempt to embrace Agile processes is the overhead in holding all of the typical ceremonial meetings...

Step four involves transitioning from a traditional product requirements document into a true agile product/ release backlog. Many people are quick to jump to the conclusion that Agile means very little or no documentation. This is certainly not the case. In fact, many...