A new feature has been added to Uzility and is now available to everyone using Uzility. This new feature is called the Daily Scrum and it is available from the current sprints page as shown here. The intention is to assist in the daily scrum or daily standup meetings to highlight what people are working on or where they may …
By: Steve Stedman CEO at Uzility Software Some of the first backlog grooming meetings that I participated in as a scrum master were extremely painful. I would be working with multiple product owners and many of them weren’t using the same system to manage their backlogs. Some were using Excel to manage their back log, others using a text file, …
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Unscramble each of the clue words.Copy the letters in the numbered cells to other cells with the same number.
The following words are all placed in the grid above. Find as many as you can. ACCEPTANCE AGILE BACKLOG BURNDOWN BURNUP CHICKEN CUSTOMER EFFORT EPIC ESTIMATION FIBONACCI GROOMING ITERATION KANBAN MANIFESTO PIG POKER REFACTORING RELEASE SCRUM SCRUMMASTER SPRINT STAKEHOLDER STANDUP STORY TASK TIMEBOX VELOCITY WATERFALL WIP
Friday at 2:00pm pacific time (US), I will be doing an hour long demo of the Uzility kanban board system. This will be about a 40 minute long free broadcast showing how to use the Uzilty system. Here is a link to the event on Google plus. https://plus.google.com/events/curc1k7uv588n1ks53q9mm39ebo You can RSVP or just show up to watch on Friday at …
I get asked all the time, can Uzility be used for non-software projects? The follow-up question is usually: Can you change the column headings, add new columns? The concept of Kanban boards works great in many situations, you don’t need to be building software to use a kanban board to track your progress. Kanban Boards for Family Activities My …
T-shirt sizing is generally used to give more of a rough estimate in sizing, and are usually used before all the acceptance criteria are worked out on the story. The t-shirt sizing method allows the team who will be doing the work to give the product owner a wild guess of how large a task may be. This can be …
I have just added the Product Tour Page to the Uzility site. Today I was asked several times for screenshots and details on the product that people can see before they register to create an account in Uzility. Here is a sample screenshot from the Product Tour Page at Uzility. See Also: Product Tour Page Uzility
I have worked with some agile product owners who when the write user stories, the like to go epic on the acceptance criteria, in fact when you read their acceptance criteria it almost looks like a complete functional specification crammed in to acceptance criteria. Other product owners simply write a user story and expect that all acceptance criteria will …
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