Effective communication is the key for software requirements, and a User Story is the common language to build understanding between user and development team. A User Story shifts the focus from writing requirements to talking about requirements. Essence of a User Story is to discuss the User Story with the user. A User Story tells a story, it describes how a customer/user employs a product in a simple language.

We are proud to say that the Endava is our gold sponsor at the 3rd Agile Serbia Conference. On the DEV stage they will introduce you with the speech “Six Agile Campfire Stories”. Also, they sent us a great blog post by George Anghelache.

A lot of people struggle with Agile Retrospectives and some even start to skip them. One of the causes of bad retrospectives is a missing purpose. Another mistake is that the team wants to execute more experiments than they are able to. In this blog post, Marc will give you some ideas on how to improve your Agile Retrospectives, and make them awesome again.

We are proud to say that the Quantox Technology is our silver sponsor at the 3rd Agile Serbia Conference. On the EXE stage they will introduce you with the workshop “Creating IoT device for your Scrum meetings”. Our friends from Quantox sent us a great blog post by Attila Pravda based on the importance of front-end development.

New Year’s resolutions have always been sort of a conflict for me. From one perspective it is good to plan ahead and work toward your goals, but from another, I am making a decision of setting a goal for a whole year in the beginning when I have the least info about the year. So this is obviously a sort of a mixed feeling dilemma.

Agile Leadership is like a product: It grows incrementally and it is deployed continuously as you work with your people. What your organisation does and how they do it – that is all that matters, and that should influence your choices as a leader.

We are proud to say that the Scrum Alliance has the role of the Special Sponsor on the 2nd Agile Serbia Conference, for the second time in a row. Followed by the previously mentioned mission, we are doing our best in spreading knowledge and awareness of Scrum and Agile. Therefore, you will have the opportunity to earn up to 8 SEUs with your attendance on the 2nd Agile Serbia Conference!

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an Agile framework, used to govern planning, execution and delivery by scaling Lean and Agile practices at enterprise scale. SAFe synchronizes alignment, collaboration and delivery for large number of teams required to build system-level solutions.

Prioritizing valuable items is essential activity and it really depends on what an organization or customer perceives as “valuable”. What value actually means to them should be defined as well, prior the prioritization takes place. However, is it enough to know just the value? Let’s see…

Very often a development team fears of estimating. But, even more often, business requires many different estimations (time, scope, etc.), as much precise as they could be. There are some useful planning and estimating techniques that could help.