How to Conduct an "Agile" Hudson Bay Start to Test How Your Team Works - Johanna Rothman

How to Conduct an "Agile" Hudson Bay Start to Test How Your Team Works - Johanna Rothman

When I wrote Manage It!, I included an idea called a Hudson Bay Start. I wrote an article about that later, in How to Use Iteration Zero—Or Not. Hudson Bay Starts are not a new idea. However, you might not know what they are. Here's the idea: the team chooses one item from their backlog. They collaborate (however they want) to complete it. Then, they demo and learn from what they did. That allows the team to decide how they want to work in the f…