Category Archives: Agile

Better Estimates by Embracing Uncertainty

Uncertainty Existential philosophers tell us that uncertainty is a fundamental given of existence.   But uncertainty is also something which we often find to be undesirable and we seem to spend a lot of time trying to rid ourselves of it. But … Continue reading

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Leave Work Unassigned and See Who Steps Forward

This post is from mountaingoatsoftware.com by Mike Cohn. Early in my career, I noticed the project managers in my company drove nicer cars than we programmers did.

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Not Everything Needs to Be a User Story: Using FDD Features

This post is from mountaingoatsoftware.com by Mike Cohn. User stories are great. When you’ve got users, that is. Sometimes, though, the users of a system or product are so far removed that a team struggles to put users into their … Continue reading

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Fear is Waterfall

This post was written by me and first published on the trainline engineering blog. The big selling point of Agile is the fast return on investment it promises. But what excites me most about Agile is its emphasis on people … Continue reading

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Cancel Your Executive Status Meetings (Do This Instead)

This post is from rallydev.com by Alex Pukinskis. Last week I met with a strategy leader for an Australian financial services organization, who was trying to work out how to bring his executive team together on a regular cadence to align … Continue reading

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Sustainability

This post is from tryingtokeepitagile.com by Lynn Grant. In my last post, Agile Development in the ’80s, I talked about the team I was on in the early ’80s that was, in many ways, a Kanban team. I was discussing this with a … Continue reading

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Agile @ Scale (slides from Sony Mobile tech talk)

This post is from blog.crisp.se by Henrik Kniberg. Here are the slides from my tech talk Agile @ Scale at Sony Mobile. Full house & very high level of engagement, I was impressed by this crowd! And thanks for the awesome recommendation on LinkedIn  Click here to see the full … Continue reading

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“How Thin is Thin?” An Example of Effective Story Slicing

This post is from agile.dzone.com by Dave Rooney. If you have spent any time at all working in an Agile software development environment, you’ve heard the mantra to split your Stories as thin as you possibly can while still delivering value. … Continue reading

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What is the point of breaking down user stories?

This may seem like a strange question coming from an Agile Coach, but what I want to do is to try to make the reasons less mushy and abstract. Many is the time when discussing (and usually disagreeing on) the … Continue reading

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Using Lego to capture raw data for Cycle Time and Process Cycle Efficiency

This post is from eliassen.com by Dave Nicolette. I’m one of six technical Agile coaches engaged by a large bank to support an initiative to improve software delivery performance. The IT department is an established agile software development shop that uses … Continue reading

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