Organizational agility through intersecting business and technology
Happy Friday! This week’s #fasterfridays touches on one of the more challenging parts of software development – estimation. We talk about Planning Poker, and then touch on Team Estimation which approaches estimation from a different perspective with the same goals. If you’re interested in finding out how to apply this to your organization, don’t hesitate…
Happy Friday! This week’s #fasterfridays is a good chance to reflect on our work and our process through the use of retrospectives. Specifically we are using it to help teams develop a mechanism for inspecting, experimenting with, changing and owning their process. If you’re interested in finding out how to apply this to your organization,…
Happy Mapping Monday! Today’s #mappingmondays video covers one of Simon Wardley’s Doctrines – “Use Appropriate Methods”. It’s a quick dive into how and when to use different methods. As always, the links in the video are below, and a full transcript is included below the video. And If you’re interested in finding out how to…
This afternoon I was teaching a public class on Lean-Agile principles and practices, and a question came up about the differences between Scrum and Kanban. As a fun exercise, I recreated Scrum using Kanban coupled with a set of Explicit Policies. To briefly summarize the differences, Scrum is a methodology which consists at its core…
(Alternate Subtitle: How the heck do you do estimation and forecasting in Kanban?) One of the biggest changes for many team who are adopting agile is in the way they slice, track and measure their work. They learn about “User Stories” which are sized using “Story Points”. The team adds up the number of Story…
In my recent post on root cause analysis and the 5-Why’s Lisa Crispin wondered if they could be used in breaking down user stories, too: Are the 5 whys only for root cause analysis? Can they be used to find out the purpose of a new user story or theme? There are many ways to…
Oh the joys of not being in the grind. From this position I get to see all sorts of stuff about doing “Agile†right. Primarily from a Project Management perspective. But, I’ve got a secret. It’s one of them there plain-sight secrets that turns out to be how successful teams get things done. To us…
This week, InfoQ published an article about the first Certified Scrum Developer class held by Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson a few weeks ago. There has been a lot of fuss from the people quoted in the article that it misrepresents them and takes things out of context. Perhaps that is the case, as I…
There’s been a lot of great posts around the ‘net since my last post on Certification. Some notable ones include Ron Jeffries, George Dinwiddie’s and Chet Hendrickson. In Chet’s post, he asks the following question: The CSD is not a panacea; it is one more arrow in our quiver. When you get done mocking it,…
Ron Jeffries has up a post titled Opportunity to Advance the Craft about the Certified Scrum Developer program. He says: Here’s the good news: the camel has his nose well inside the tent. Here are some reasons why: and Whether we like it or not, the words ‘certified’ and ‘developer’ are going to be adjacent…