Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

What agile practice do you use to ensure that your team achieves a manageable and consistent workload?

What waterfall thinking, operating under the guise of agile, would answer

“Each person on our team works on his own user story.”

What we’d like to hear

“Being agile required us to adopt the principles of queuing theory because we achieved greater efficiency and throughput by leveraging a steady flow of small batches of work. In addition, our agile team uses small tasks to ensure that we can all work together on one user story at a time and get to ‘Done!’ before moving on to a new user story.”