The blog post read: “For my teams, as they cannot fully shield themselves from changes in a Sprint, the 20% reserve allows them to [adapt]/deal with most changes, and keep their Sprint commitments.” The team was breaking work down into hours, then keeping a “slush fund” of spare hours to… Read More »Sprint Goals
What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager? A simple question, but not simple to answer; opinions are divided and approaches vary from company to company. Following a discussion at London Agile Discussion Group and further reading, here are my generalised summaries. The Product Owner The… Read More »Product Owner | Product Manager
Lean Coffee is a gathering of a small number of people who want to discuss lean in an informal setting. The first Lean Coffee was in Seattle in 2009 (organised by Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith), but the idea has spread around the world. The format is similar to an… Read More »Lean Coffee
Do you still use physical cards in planning poker? Or maybe you use an app? Either way, the question has to be “why?” A past colleague of mine recently emailed me to say that he’d found such apps, and I asked why he didn’t use hands? “It’s quicker and a… Read More »Show me the hand
Would you be shocked if I told you that, during the Korean War, prisoners of war from the United States gave away military secrets, informed on fellow prisoners, and even publically denounced their country? Would you be even more surprised if I told you they did so without being beaten… Read More »Commitment and Consistency
After relaying Hakan Forss’ Red Brick Cancer presentation from LKUK13 to some colleagues, we got into a discussion about ‘resource efficiency’ and ‘flow efficiency’ in reference to coffee shops. (Names changed to protect identity) The first company, CelestialDollars, takes each person’s order and their money, then pushes the orders through… Read More »Coffee shop flow
With all the excitement around estimates, it was time to build “What Mike Said”. Heading into a 2-day hack-a-thon, we were being encouraged to work on ideas that would bring benefit, without needing to relate to any of the Company’s top priority items. The beauty team were offering shiny new… Read More »What Mike Said
I’m torn. I’ve grown up (professionally) believing that estimates are the best way to guide, direct and drive a business. Not just in tech either; even my first job had targets and budgets that were based on estimates. Suddenly, this bedrock of planning has been shattered: most estimates that I’ve… Read More »No Estimates
Estimation is always a hot topic, but it appears to particularly popular at the moment. One unifying belief (from Planning Poker to #NoEstimates) seems to be that we are not very good at estimating. But is that really true? Sure, if you are precise with your estimate, then you are… Read More »How accurate are your estimates?
What is the difference between an epic and a theme? What is a story? Is a task testable in its own right? Can you work on an epic in a sprint? The opening session of the London Agile Discussion Group (LADG) looked at these basic terms to see if there… Read More »Theme, Epic, Story, Task
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