Agile
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Why I don’t like to hire team leads
Every company has its own culture that it wants to preserve. As a company grows it becomes harder to preserve…
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Preparing Your Culture to Move Beyond Agile Development
How can companies and organizations build in innovation today beyond agile development? Agile methods are evolving from the basic Scrum…
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How to Use Continuous Planning
If you’ve read Reasons for Continuous Planning, you might be wondering, “How can we do this?” Here are some ideas.…
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The Story with Story Points
I don’t like story points. I think this is part of my crusade against complexity. You can catch a glimpse…
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Estimates: Jumping To Wrong Conclusions
The main dysfunctions we concentrate on when talking about estimates are how they (and the people who gave them) are…
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Who Should be Your Product Owner?
In agile, we separate the Product Owner function from functional (development) management. The reason is that we want the people…
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7 Tips for Valuing Features in a Backlog
Many product owners have a tough problem. They need so many of the potential features in the roadmap, that they…
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How Detailed should the Product Backlog be?
Summary The product backlog is a great tool. But using it effectively can be difficult. One of the challenges is…
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Trust, Accountability, and Where Does the Time Go?
As more of my clients transition to agile, many of them have a fascinating question: How do I assess who…
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