Ron Lichty

I encountered agile for the first time in 1999. A decade later, I was not only coaching my own teams in it but also teaching it to friends’ ...

If you read my post on never, ever, ever, letting story points or velocity be used as a performance metric , you are likely aware of my skep...

I’ve been asked by more than one team I’m training: Kanban or Scrum? Of course, the first answer is to ask if you’re even being agile. Ther...

Uncle Bob Martin once noted, “Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional developer.” That’s not enough....

  Never, ever, ever, let story points or velocity be used as a performance metric. In fact, don’t share points and velocity outside the team...

“In-person is the gold standard,” I heard a colleague say. We were discussing the impact of the pandemic on team communications. The imp...

Our 2019 Study of Product Team Performance , released this month, reveals that high performance teams tend to work from backlogs more tha...

What makes a standup effective? We know, from the Study of Product Team Performance, that the highest performing teams hold effectiv...

Ask any scrum coach about ideal team size and you’ll likely get the same answer: 7 plus or minus 2. That is, 5 to 9 team members doing ...