It’s officially a series now. In this Short Answers video, I answer the question, “If my Scrum team could work on one thing in 2009, what should it be?”

Of course, adopting agile engineering practices and getting better at product management are often easier said than done. If you’d like help getting started with some of the practices I mentioned in the video, I’m running a New Year’s training and coaching special with 7 ways to get 2009 started right for less than $2,000.

Books I mentioned in the video:
The Goal by Eli Goldratt
It’s Not Luck by Eli Goldratt

Related posts:

1. Short Answers #1: When Stories Are Larger Than Planned
2. New Benjamin Zander Video – “How Fascinating!”
3. One Word Can Change Your Daily Scrum

I’m experimenting with video for what is likely become a new series here. In these “Short Answers” posts, I’ll answer an agile question in about a minute. Use the comments to suggest questions you’d like to see in future Short Answers.

In this post, I answer the question, “What should I do when I discover in the middle of a sprint that a story is larger than we planned?” Several people have asked me this, and the answer is not, “Suck it up and work 80 hours to get everything done.”

Related posts:

1. One Word Can Change Your Daily Scrum
2. A Common, but Bad, Idea
3. Making Velocity Granular Enough