This tutorials discusses the “definition of done”, a way of focusing on business value while avoiding technical debt.It explains to Agile Scrum Masters and Project Managers how release decisions and tradeoffs are made, and how to avoid technical debt.

The Planning Poker for JIRA is what you need to estimate your Story Points in distributed, fun and safe way. Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Team participants can now join on-line Planning Meeting and evaluate User Stories while discussing on embedded chat or previewing issues.

This short video explains how to estimates items in a product backlog and how it differs from task estimation. It introduces the notion of story points.

There are a lot of different situations in software projects with distributed teams. You can seen both successful and disastrous projects in terms of the ways communication and coordination was designed. People can be pretty much on the same page in terms of project goals while seating in different offices and in different countries. You can also witness people being completely off the track, suffering and losing motivation. Based on experience, this video tries to explains what make some projects good places to be and some not.

This short video presents the Scrum framework.