If you were going to write a book using agile methodologies, what might that look like? You might be inclined to create a backlog of topics… maybe play a little planning poker to get some idea of how big your book is in story points. You’d start wr…
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Earlier today we noodled on the secret sauce… maybe even THE most important value add… of implementing a Kanban system. Kanban gives us a very visual way of identifying and elevating the constraints in our system. The ONLY way to really get a tea…
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Okay… time for part two in my Noodling on Kanban mini-series.Yesterday we talked about the Kanban board and how it was similar, but not the same, as the Scrum task board. We also talked about work in process limits and how they can be used to explic…
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For the final cross-cutting theme in “Rethinking the Agile Enterprise”… Dennis and I are going to talk about talking.In other words we are going to explore how organizations talk to each other when delivering work. We plan to integrate the idea that…
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Serge Beaumont posted a great article on the The Definition of READY at Xebia Blog. While the concept of being ‘ready’ for iteration planning is already in Scrum, I have found that it’s not something that gets a great deal of attention. Product Owners are left to “get stories ready” without having a clear definition [...]
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Is there a difference between the value a team delivers and their velocity? Said another way… if I increase the velocity of the team… aren’t I getting more value from them over time? Like so many things we talk about here… the answer really dep…
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Ideally bugs belong on the product backlog just like any feature request. But, that would often necessitate a significant change for the rest of the organization so two backlogs are used.
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Describes how to use a task board when a team has one remote member
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Today we are experimenting with 1 day sprints as an attempt to clear a large backlog of product work and client related work. During our last retrospective we noticed that there was at least one interruption each day during the sprint and while they were small, it’s still proving the point that when your [...]
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It’s been quite a while since I last blogged, my apologies to my faithful 10-person readership. Today was a particular hellish day after being off for only a few days. I came back to complete dis-array within the team and process and actually was quite surprised based on how well things were going and how [...]
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