Agile
How to improve the quality of User Stories
Acceptance criteria are the link between a user story and its test cases. A method of up to five steps, based on keywords and a question catalog, for deriving them systematically.
Facilitation
Workshop Tactics® by Pip Deck - The Tarot Cards of a Facilitator
Always on the lookout for tools that make workshops more productive, I tried Pip Deck's Workshop Tactics cards: well described, self-explanatory, and a real addition to a facilitator's toolbox.
Agile
Sink or Swim: How Battleship Teaches the Benefits of Iterative Development
Responding to change over following a plan: a round of Battleship lets teams feel why an empirical, iterative approach beats predictive planning. An interactive tool for the agile toolbox.
Scrum
Alternative questions to make your daily sync more valuable
Dailies built on the three classic questions tend to become mechanical and monotonous. Alternative guiding questions that turn the daily back into a conversation.