Video: Maturing Agile
Todd Olsen says that agile usually starts small in an organization. One department is interested in trying agile and they start using it and eventually proving that they can produce the desired...
View ArticleINVEST in user stories
User stories are the basic units of work for Agile methodologies. They describe features to implement in a system and are one of the primary artifact generated before coding a prototype.Stories are...
View ArticleFixing Bugs – There’s No Substitute for Experience
We've all heard that the only way to get good at fixing bugs in through experience – the school of hard knocks. Preview Text: We've all heard that the only way to get good at fixing bugs in through...
View ArticleAgile traveling
This post is inspired by The Magic Suitcase article by Francesco Cirillo, on the value on searching the simplest (and lighter) solution over adding weight and force to bring a project forward; I...
View ArticleEstimation and Fluency
Martin Fowler recently asked me via email if I thought there might be a relationship between Agile Fluency and how teams approach estimation. (Free Estimation Ebook) This is my response: I definitely...
View ArticleTo Estimate, or Not to Estimate. That is the Question.
Disparaging those who provide software estimates seems to be a growing sport. (Free Estimation Ebook) At conferences, in blogs and the twitter-verse it seems open season for anyone who dares to suggest...
View Article"How do you estimate on an Agile project?" by Martin Folwer and ThoughtWorks
If you’re interested in techniques for estimation, you should take a look at this pdf ebook. It contains half-a-dozen essays on estimating in agile projects, drawn from our experiences with a wide...
View ArticleJoy Spring and Estimated Deadlines
I remember how eager I was earlier this year to hear what Phil, the prophetic groundhog, would predict about when spring would come. It doesn't come as a surprise, but Phil’s prediction was an epic...
View ArticleEstimating on an Agile Project
If you’ve ever had any involvement with an Agile project (whether it was “pure” Agile or not), you’ll likely have encountered the beast which is effort forecasting and analysis. This drives the...
View ArticleAbsolute Estimating vs. Relative Estimating
I’ve started work on some new videos and this time it’s all about Agile Estimating, Planning and Contracts. This is the obvious next step having completed Scrum101, and I’m apply some of the lesson...
View ArticleEstimating Might Be Broken, But It’s Not Evil
Ron Jeffries's essay Estimation is Evil talks about how absurd estimating can be on a software project, and the nightmare scenarios that teams can end up in (Free Estimation Ebook): Preview Text:...
View ArticleEstimating the Unknown: Projects or Budgets, Part 3
(Free Estimation Ebook)You have options for estimation, once you have met the preconditions. If you don’t have the feature set in a ranked order, you are in trouble. That’s because if you use any...
View ArticleLack of Predictability: Your Biggest Problem
What I’m seeing at many of my clients is an inability to know what will be completed in the next release. This shows up as missed dates and frustration over broken commitments and “unreliable teams”....
View ArticleElephant Carpaccio (on user stories)
In our weekly book club, we performed an exercise by Alistair Cockburn called Elephant Carpaccio. The goal was to improve our ability to split stories along smaller story boundaries instead of in more...
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