How do you grade risks? How do you decide which project to start next? You probably grade risks on a scale of high, medium or low and you probably choose projects based on the ‘value’ that they will deliver. The problem is, these simple scales are often thought of as… Read More »Star plots
During a talk last week about certain aspects of the Agile Manifesto I began thinking about the manifesto’s first statement Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools. I’m sure we all know that the textbook definition to this is that we value the people and the communication between the people… Read More »Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools
Following on from last week’s post by James, I thought I would continue the estimation discussion, but from a different angle. Douglas Hubbard (author of How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business) believes that we can calibrate our estimation skills so that we are less likely… Read More »Estimation Calibration
Or is it? It’s not so much the act of estimation that’s the issue. Relative sizing can be a useful tool to help teams gain a shared understanding of a work item, and as a barometer for keeping batch size small. It’s what we do with those numbers afterwards that… Read More »To estimate, or not to estimate: That is the question.
The Agile and Lean communities love an acronym, but will settle for an initialism if they have to. For clarification, an acronym is when a word is formed from the initial letters of words in a phrase, and is then pronounced as a separate word (for example, BAFTA or WYSIWYG).… Read More »Acronym Quiz
UPDATE: please note that the Scrum Mentorship Programme is no longer running. For information on our latest mentorship scheme, please go to agilementorcircle.org “How do I start using Scrum?” is a question I get asked a lot. “Where can I go to get some hands-on training?” is another. The need is… Read More »Scrum Mentorship Programme
Who can the play the roles of Product Owner and ScrumMaster? And do they need to be full-time? The ScrumMaster Can the ScrumMaster perform the role of Product Owner? No. There is a potential for a conflict of interest. One of the duties of the ScrumMaster is to protect the… Read More »Duplicate Roles
In May 2004, David J. Anderson wrote a blog post about pride as a motivator (which is printed in his excellent new-ish book, Lessons in Agile Management: On the Road to Kanban). A decade on, I think it still has resonance. A summary of his blog post is: Teams in… Read More »Pride as a motivator
This week, I ran into Justin. He’s a fellow-commuter who I see sporadically. Justin works for a Government department and is never one to hold back from sharing his wisdom with us. In return, we playfully mock his lavish holiday allowance and 9-to-5 attitude. When I mentioned that I am… Read More »Conference Crimes
Agile and Lean communities love acronyms* (PBI, CFD, PO, TDD, INVEST, and so on), but the most misunderstood of all is MVP. Most people seem to think that “Minimum Viable Product” means the minimum amount of work you need to do to a product before you can put it to… Read More »What is an MVP?
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