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Well, we just finished sprint 18. There’s been some good success, but unfortunately I feel this should technically be called a failed sprint, for the simple fact that three tasks were not completed.
The first of these tasks was an ongoing piece of software custom-written for a single user. It has been completed long ago, [...]

Today our pack of thirty planning poker card decks arrived from Mountain Goat Software.
They were ordered by our senior engineer, who is also a partner in the company, and their arrival was a surprise to me. Unfortunately he went a bit overboard when ordering.. considering that there’s enough cards in a deck for four [...]

After I began maintaining a manual burndown chart for the sprint, I noticed that in reality the burndown chart was not telling us what we needed to know. It was based on completed tasks – and completed means coded and dev-tested.
Towards the end of almost every sprint, we were seeing that our burndown chart suddenly [...]