agile ceremonies
9 retrospective techniques that won’t bore your team to tears
Don’t let your retros become stale, check-the-box-and-let’s-get-outta-here exercises that serve no purpose. Use these ideas to keep your team engaged.
4 best practices for sprint planning meetings
This article is the second in a series on agile ceremonies. Learn how we do sprint retrospectives, too. So let’s walk through four tenets of sprint planning we find most helpful.
Productivity data proves stand-ups aren’t just for coders anymore
Poor communication and wasted work are toxic for any team – but there’s an easy solution.
15 hot takes on the future of agile
#IWish there was another kind of Agile besides just Scrum and Kanban. #RetroOnAgile — Dan Chuparkoff (@Chuparkoff) January 28, 2018 Agile is about to reach its 20th birthday. Software teams, support teams, and even marketing teams have been practicing its rules and principles for years. These teams have built some amazing products thanks to agile […]
Atlassian named a Gartner Enterprise Agile Planning Tools Magic Quadrant leader
As more and more companies adopt agile practices, their tools need to keep up with the demands of startups to enterprises and everything in between. And no matter what flavor of agile your teams practice, we want our tools to help you iterate and release great software. That is why we are happy to announce that […]
Ideas to optimize your planning poker sessions
This is a guest post by Vitalii Zurian, a software engineer and the creator of a series of agile add-ons for Jira Cloud, including the #1 paid add-on, Planning Poker. Vitalli blogs at agilevalues.com. As your team matures and becomes more experienced, you’d think your estimates and planning poker sessions would improve as well. Seems […]
Agile marketing: fad or future of marketing?
Can agile methodologies used to deliver products really help marketers in delivering campaigns? We think the answer is yes. In today’s world of constant customer feedback, marketers must be able to adjust their plans based on what’s trending in digital and social media. And with that, they need a better way to manage their marketing projects. That is why many are looking at agile marketing and methods such as scrum and kanban, to help.
Three resolutions for better agile ceremonies
No matter where you fall on the scale from zero to agile, by mastering the basics of agile development, you and your team can make awesome software. So in the light of the new year and bettering oneself, I propose three resolutions for your team – each one focused on an agile ceremony.
What agile retrospectives won’t improve, and what you can do about it
Retrospectives are one of those essential rituals of agile practice. They’re fast, they’re easy, and a great way for a team to focus on how to improve what they’re doing. But the thing with retrospectives is that they sometimes become all about the practice of your team, rather than the intent of your team. They become all about the team’s shoulda woulda coulda, rather than the team’s purpose…
Inside Atlassian: a product manager and a dev manager walk into a planning meeting…
Product planning meetings are one of the most important meetings in a product’s lifecycle so we decided to take you inside a product planning meeting at Atlassian by filming the latest Portfolio for Jira planning meeting (filming the planning meeting of a planning tool seemed only fitting). These product planning meetings tend to happen quarterly and last about four hours (don’t worry – we time-lapsed it for you of course!).
How to create sprint retrospective and demo pages (like a BOSS) with Confluence
As software makers, we rely heavily on sprint retrospectives and demos to learn more about what’s going on with our team and our products. Read on to see how to build pages that record what you’ve learned and let you share it outside your team.
Inside Atlassian: stand-ups for distributed and co-located teams
Stand-up is one of the fundamental parts of agile development, and it’s often the most misunderstood. Let’s be real: stand-ups by themselves don’t make your team agile. They aren’t about inflating egos or justifying job descriptions. They aren’t a time to plan; Sprint planning is for planning. They also aren’t the only time to mention blockers. If you’re stuck, ask for help!
Inside Atlassian: three steps for better sprint reviews
In the late afternoon on Fridays you can often hear clapping and cheering throughout the Atlassian office. Here, we work hard, play hard, and celebrate our successes in the form of sprint reviews. Sprint reviews are not retrospectives. A sprint review is about demonstrating the hard work of the entire team: designers, developers, and the product owner. At Atlassian we like to keep our sprint reviews casual. Team members gather around a desk for informal demos and describe the work they’ve done for that iteration. It’s a time to ask questions, try new features, and give feedback. Sharing in success is an important part of building an agile team.
Inside Atlassian: seven steps for better retrospectives
Happy December, the time for retrospectives! The end of the year is a time for reflection. For our team, each member considers questions like: What went well? What accomplishments did I make? What do I want to improve on? What did I miss that I want to do next year? That’s right, December is our yearly retrospective! (That’s the cool agile term.) Retrospectives are the meetings held after a sprint, iteration, or release.