What Would You Be Willing to Give Up?

The following is a list of practices that teams typically adopt when moving to agile. For each one that your team has adopted, assume the opportunity arises to stop engaging in the practice.

Put a “yes” next to each practice that your team would be willing to give up.

Put an “n/a” next to each practice that your team is not currently using.

_____ Having “whole teams” (that is, teams that are both cross-component and cross-discipline)

_____ Having daily standup meetings

_____ Creating user stories

_____ Sizing user stories with story points (using relative sizings) using planning poker to assign story point values

_____ Creating small tasks at the beginning of each iteration for the user stories targeted ...

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