Agyle: how to do an Agile

Daily standup

The agenda for a standup is strictly:

• What did you do yesterday?
• What will you do today?
• Do you have any blockers?
• Any traffic incidents on the way to the office
• How to do an Agile: great time to discuss established processes

Estimation

• Always re-estimate tasks before rolling them over into a sprint
• Unless they've been dragging on for a while and you feel like you've really earned those points
• If a task is too complicated to estimate quickly, simply make it a full sprint task

Backlog

• Issues are dev tasks, not meeting placeholders, nor personal reminders
• Apart from dentist appointments and things that you really can't forget

Sprints

• If you're not completing enough story points you can simple double your estimates

Jira

• Jira should be as frictionless as possible and should not distract you from actually doing work
• Until you introduce lots of automation and rules and then it can become your full-time job