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Swarming Across Distance Posted at InfoQ
I have an article posted at InfoQ, Swarming Across Distance. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. You have to think about how to swarm. It’s not always intuitively obvious. Enjoy!
Why Does Management Care About Velocity?
I’ve been talking to people whose management cares about their velocity. “My management wants us to double our velocity.” Or, “My management wants us to do more in a sprint.” Or, “My management wants to know when we will be … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, cumulative flow, estimation, Manage Your Project Portfolio, management, schedule games, velocity
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Great Recollections from the Geographically Distributed Teams Workshop
Shane and the participants and I had a great time at the Geographically Distributed Agile Teams workshop last week. We ran a couple of simulations, and here are some of the emails the teams had: Do you have something for … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, geographically distributed teams, value stream
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Thoughts on Infrastructure, Technical Debt, and Automated Test Framework
I’ve had several conversations in email and with clients recently that have all been about this question: “What do we do about our infrastructure?” Either the project or the program has to create/update/upgraded their architecture or automated test infrastructure, pay … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, architecture, geographically distributed teams, lean, program management, roadmap, technical debt
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Throughput or Productivity?
I’m tech-editing an article for the Agile Journal. I’m having a discussion with the author about the words “productivity” and “throughput.” I believe that what we measure in agile teams is throughput, the number of features through the team over … Continue reading
Tripped Up on Timezones!
I just posted Managing Timezones in Geographically Distributed Agile Teams. I have a funny story to tell about it. I’m in Belgium, getting ready for Belgium Testing Days. This weekend, the US changes to Daylight Savings Time. But Europe doesn’t. … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, geographically distributed teams, humor, project management
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Break the Email Chain
One of the problems in a geographically distributed team is the dreaded email chain. Someone has a problem and sends an email. Probably late in the day, when he or she is frustrated after pounding on the problem all day, … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, email chain, geographically distributed teams, risk
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Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 5
So where does all of this get us with budgets and dates? In many ways, estimating project budgets or dates for agile projects turns out to be irrelevant. If you have a ranked backlog, and you finish features, you can … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, estimation, iterative planning, kanban, team, timebox, transition to agile
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Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 4
In Part 3, you had some knowledge of the team’s velocity. This is the option of when you do not have knowledge of the team’s velocity, because this team has not worked together before, or has not worked on a … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, estimation, iterative planning, kanban, team, timebox, transition to agile
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Estimating the Unknown: Projects or Budgets, Part 3
You have options for estimation, once you have met the preconditions. If you don’t have the feature set in a ranked order, you are in trouble. That’s because if you use any lifecycle other than an agile lifecycle, the feature … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, estimation, iterative planning, kanban, team, timebox, transition to agile
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