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How to Write Great Agile User Stories

Published by on March 10, 2016.
user stories

User stories are a valued component of agile or scrum development. In project management, user stories helps keep teams focused on the end goal of “why” a feature is needed. It also helps to provide a deeper context for everyone working on sub-items related to a larger feature. Writing user stories for agile or scrum is […]

5 Scrum Meeting Best Practices: Master the Daily Stand-Up

Published by on March 2, 2016.
scrum meeting

The scrum meeting, aka the daily stand-up, is the 15 minute meeting that makes product development teams more productive and efficient.  Yet, sometimes the scrum meeting gets a bad rap. Some even argue it’s an outdated practice and a waste of time. We disagree. So do most of our customers at Sprintly who run agile processes. We’ve all found that this meeting style […]

Developer Podcasts: 10 Most Recommended on Hacker News

Published by on February 23, 2016.
Developer Podcasts

Looking for developer podcasts so great you’ll want to binge listen? We’ve got you covered. 10 top picks from the Hacker News threads. We’ve been talking about developer podcasts around the office, and we decided to analyze Hacker News to see which podcasts folks recommended most over there. To do this, we analyzed the podcast recommendation threads from the […]