Agile and Scrum

What is the metric to track the progress of finishing the story, such as story point?

Q: What is the metric to track the progress of finishing the story, such as story point? As a lot of ZenTao users have tried Jira before they chose ZenTao, they tended to ask questions whether...

2019/06/12 Michi Ten 263

Agile keeps rock the PM world

Practitest.com released the State of Testing Report 2018 and gives a glimpse into what is going on in the testing community. With years observation of the testing community, trends regarding traini...

2019/04/15 Amber 307

How to Implement Scrum in a Development Team Effectively

It might be a great idea not mentioning Scrum at all when implementing it. Try to practice Scrum using another names. PART 1 of Planning Meeting = Story Analysis Meeting Product Owner explains each ...

2018/01/10 Pedro 1382

What is 3-3-5 Structure in Scrum?

The introduction of 3-3-5 structure in Scrum and the case of ZenTao project management software

2018/01/07 Pedro 6982

How to introduce Scrum/Scrum tool to your team

This is the true story of one of our ZenTao users who introduced ZenTao to his team and improved the performance of the whole team.

2018/01/02 Pedro 1823

User Stories: How to Create Acceptance Criteria

When working with clients who have already started adopting Agile, one of the first item the author look at is their backlog. Why? Because the quality of the backlog is a leading indicator to how well...

2017/12/31 Yves 3519

How to improve team efficiency for project managers?

There are some advice for project managers that improve team’s efficiency.

2017/12/30 Pedro 855

5 Best Free and Open Source Project Management Software (FOSS) in 2017

If you are a startup with budget for software, you might consider using free software so to cut down the costs. Thanks to Linus Torvalds and a lot of coders, now you have open source software as an op...

2017/12/29 Pedro 3058

Standardize management of Agile development using ZenTao

Apply ZenTao to manage the all lifecycle of software development in Agile methodology, and standardize managment through phases of Story->Design->Code->QA->Delivery, which match feature...

2017/12/26 Pedro 700

Collective code ownership is an important factor of XP

There are strong code ownership, weak code ownership and collective code ownership according to Martine Fowler, "Chief Scientist" of ThoughtWorks. The former two are individual code ownership that mod...

2017/12/26 Pedro 1262