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Timeboxes, Iterations, and Orthodoxy
If you haven’t read Duane Nathaniel’s thoughtful comment on What Happens When You Can’t Finish What You Wanted in an Iteration?, do so now. Duane makes some great points. RUP has iterations; they’re not timeboxed–they’re deliverable-based. (Take a look … Continue reading
Estimating What’s Remaining to Finish
Pawel caught me being ambiguous. See his comment, “1. I’ve seen features/fixes which required 2 days to be developed and released.” Sorry, me too. But what I tried to say was this: A feature was estimated to be some … Continue reading
What Happens When You Can’t Finish What You Wanted in an Iteration?
I ran a little workshop today about transitioning to agile. I was talking about timeboxed iterations, and one of the participants asked this question. “So I don’t quite finish one of the features I want to finish in this … Continue reading
Why Do Some Testers/Test Managers Have a Siege Mentality?
I facilitated a management problem-solving session at the STARWest conference yesterday. When I was debriefing the activities, one participant said he’s met a bunch of testers and test managers who had a “siege” mentality. He was surprised by that. … Continue reading
When Requirements Spawn Requirements
A colleague asked me what to do when you’re in an iteration and you realize that the story you’re working on spawns other requirements. I suggested that the person add them to the product backlog (the backlog of everything … Continue reading
Posted in requirements
Tagged agile, feedback, iterative planning, project team, technical debt, transition to agile
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Unanticipated Events Screw Up Schedules
So after I posted the Probabilistic Scheduling post, I was working merrily away. I had made some small progress on the book, but was still finishing up other things. Finally, Wednesday I had cleared the entire day to work … Continue reading
Reducing Infrastructure Risk
It’s been quite the Monday so far. My office toilet started spewing water, a cabinet door fell off one of the cabinets in the kitchen, and I’m trying to back up and duplicate my hard disk because both latches … Continue reading
Iterations Keep Sponsors Involved
Several years ago, a colleague emailed me, asking how to keep sponsors involved. My colleague was using company-mandated phase-gate lifecycle with long project durations (18-24 months). I’d recommended providing a project dashboard and showing the sponsor progress. My colleague … Continue reading
Project Managers and Technology
A reader was reading Characteristics of Great Project Managers and asked, “Do you feel that to be a great Project Manager one need not know completely about the technology involved?” No. Project managers need to understand enough about the … Continue reading
Frequency of Iterations is Related to Speed of Release
I’m working with a group of people who are new to iterative development. They’re doing more of a staged delivery lifecycle than an agile lifecycle, but they are releasing about once a month. They don’t like it, because they … Continue reading
Posted in project management
Tagged agile, iterative planning, project management, timebox
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