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The key difference between acceptance criteria and the definition of done is this: Acceptance criteria are unique to a specific user story or backlog item, while the definition of done applies ...

Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose—solving complex, adaptive problems. No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether ...

A global crisis rewrites priorities everywhere. Crisis management increases the demand for valuable resources. And the economic effect of increased demand for a constrained supply is an increase in ...

With the release of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012, Microsoft decided to adopt a new approach to delivering value to the products. Rather than wait two to three ...

As companies proceed with their digital transformations, software becomes increasingly strategic and pervasive – which means they need more of it. Lots more. The demand for new and updated ...

Story Points are a crucial aspect of agile development, as they help quantify workload and job estimates. If you're not using them, you're missing out. Story Points is a very common practice in agile ...