Story points or hours? A practical framework for choosing an estimation model for government agile teams, with a worked capacity example.
Government sprint commitments break when holidays, PTO, and training aren’t subtracted from capacity first. A 5-step framework plus a worked example.
A five-sprint framework for onboarding a new government agile team: plan by capacity first, then blend in velocity before reporting predictability.
Every fist of five ends the same way. Fingers go up around the room, someone calls out the average, it […]
Why documented sprint capacity decisions protect government PMOs under review — and how to build an audit-ready record inside Jira.
Three small tickets. That’s usually how it starts. A support fix gets pulled into the release because “it’s basically done […]
Government deadlines rarely move. Here’s how to reverse-plan sprints against real velocity and capacity, not headcount, so risk surfaces early.
Sprint dependencies aren’t one risk — they’re five: sequential, resource, cross-team, external, and decision. Here’s how to catch each before planning.
A real release plan needs three things: an estimated backlog, real velocity, and agreed conditions of satisfaction. Here’s what breaks when one is missing.
One backlog refinement question — could a developer start this tomorrow? — surfaces missing acceptance criteria and dependencies before sprint planning.



