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Story Points are not enough

Story Points are not enough

Your team has two stories to consider for next sprint. One involves supporting a new input source. What is needed to be done is pretty clear. Create the schema. Create the input API. Create the ETL. Test, document, and deploy. There is work to do, but it’s well understood work. […]

Working From Home

Working From Home

Over the past year, for many of us “WFH” has gone from a luxury to a temporary inconvenience to a running gag on the year 2020 to a possibly permanent lifestyle. I thought I’d share a few tips that have helped me in this new Zoom dominated office. Video Scrum […]

Agile: Principles vs Practice

Agile: Principles vs Practice

Years ago at one of my previous jobs, I remarked to a coworker when we were trying to move the organization to agile that “Before, we were about as agile as an 80 year old man with arthritis.  Now we are about as agile as an 80 year old man […]

Agile Estimation

Agile Estimation

You a member of an agile development team planning out your next sprint.  You have estimate your velocity at 33.  You currently have a load of 32.  There is a remaining story that has been estimated as having 2 story points (using a Fibonacci sequence).  Would it be a mistake […]