February 2022 - Old Street Solutions

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Easier Sprint Planning in Jira with Agile Planning Boards

June 30, 2022February 24, 2022 by Christopher Berry

In Scrum, every sprint kicks off with a sprint planning ceremony (‘ceremony’ being a fancy agile term for ‘meeting’). The point of it is to … Read More

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Tips from a Recovered Planning Skeptic: Start Starting

June 30, 2022February 15, 2022 by Chris Cooke

David J. Anderson, one of the brains behind the Kanban movement, famously said: ”Stop starting, start finishing.” Putting the Agile in Planning This is great … Read More

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How to Share Your Jira Agile Board with External Users

June 30, 2022February 10, 2022 by Christopher Berry

There’ll be times when you want to share a bunch of Jira issues externally without buying extra licenses. Maybe you’re working on a project with … Read More

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A Guide to Confluence Automation and Keyboard Shortcuts

June 30, 2022February 3, 2022 by Christopher Berry

We are all lazy bums. Gee, thanks Old Street, I click on one of your articles and get insulted in the first line. Wait, though. … Read More

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Does the Waterfall/Agile Hybrid Model Work for Marketing Teams?

June 30, 2022February 1, 2022 by Teodora Vasileva

*shoutout to Christopher Berry and Morgan Folsom, who helped me put my distracted thoughts in place. If you have regular touchpoints with your coworkers from … Read More