Agile
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 4, Resilience, Prediction, & Feedback
One of my clients was trying—valiantly—to make their quarterly planning sessions work. They prepared, getting the big hotel room. They…
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Definition of Ready considered harmful
Earlier this week I was with a team and discussion turned to “the definition of ready.” This little idea has…
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 3, Flow-Based Roadmapping
In Part 1, I wrote about thinking in feature sets so everyone could see smaller chunks of work. (If you…
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 2, Rolling Wave Planning Inside One Quarter
In Part 1, I wrote about thinking in feature sets and how to quickly create a feature set of—with any…
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 1, Think in Feature Sets
Many teams and organizations try to create one-quarter roadmaps. Here are the problems I see: Teams spend a ton of time…
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Documentation is another deliverable and 7 other rules
We (the programmers) had documentation coming out our ears. Architecture documents, design documents, user guides, functional specifications, program specifications, and…
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You’re Doing It Wrong: Deadlines
We know that deadlines drive behavior. That’s why in scrum, and other agile methodologies, we timebox the development with those…
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How to Manage a Manager?
No secret, we you all have managers. Some of them are great, while many are simply idiots. What do you do if…
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Creating Milestones with Iteration-Based Agile
I’ve been coaching several teams with a problem: they like to work in iterations. And, they have milestones that are…
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