Agile
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Sooner or Later: Deliver Early or Minimize Waste
There’s an obvious but important tension in Lean/Agile development around when to make decisions. Between the fundamental Agile position that…
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Agile Estimating: Story Points and Decay
I’m re-reading Mike Cohn’s Agile Estimating and Planning. It’s the best book I’ve found on this and worth reading, even…
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Measuring your IT OPS – Part 2
In my opening article I stated the importance of measuring IT OPS to provide the underlying framework for a Continous…
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Measuring your IT OPS – Part 1
In my previous article I briefly explained the importance of measuring IT OPS to lay the foundations for Continuous Improvement…
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Product-Burndown-Charts and Sprint-Burndown-Charts in SCRUM Projects
Product-Backlog-Charts and Sprint-Backlog-Charts are used in almost all Agile approaches. In the following article the terminology of SCRUM is used,…
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Becoming a Leading Manager
My most recent post, We Cannot Choose Between Management And Leadership, has struck a chord. That’s the good news. The…
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Are Agile plans Better because they are Feature-Based?
In Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn quotes Jim Highsmith on why Agile projects are better: “One of the things…
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Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master
A reader asked why the lifecycle in Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 is not Scrum. It’s not…
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The pursuit of protection: How much testing is “enough”?
I’m definitely not a testing expert. I’m a manager who wants to know when the software that we are building…
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