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Software Development
Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 2
In Part 1, you had some knowledge of the team’s velocity. This is the option of when you do not…
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Software Development
Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 1
Almost every manager I know wants to know when a project will be done. Some managers decree when a project…
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Agile
Programs and Technical Debt
Once you have a program (a collection of interrelated projects focused on one business goal) and you have technical debt,…
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Agile
Why Does Management Care About Velocity?
I’ve been talking to people whose management cares about their velocity. “My management wants us to double our velocity.” Or,…
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Agile
Infrastructure, Technical Debt, and Automated Test Framework
I’ve had several conversations in email and with clients recently that have all been about this question: “What do we…
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Agile
Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams
I’ve been working with geographically distributed and dispersed teams for the past couple of years. Some of them on quite…
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